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Request for Comments: Improved short tags for templating
- Version: 1.0
- Date: 2008-04-03
- Author: Stas Malyshev stas@php.net
- Status: Under Discussion
Rationale
Many template systems use PHP as its underlying language, so that the templates could be parsed and run by the efficient PHP engine, edited by PHP tools, benefit from PHP performance solutions, etc. PHP template can be written in two ways, with full tags:
This is a home page for <i><?php echo $user; ?></i>. Last visited at <?php echo $lastvisit; ?>.
or short tags:
This is a home page for <i><?= $user ?></i>. Last visited at <?= $lastvisit ?>.
Runtime short tags
Make short_open_tags settable in runtime, thus allowing the template engine to turn it on when parsing template, while leaving the opportunity for the user to keep it off outside template parsing. * Pro: Allows the setting to be controlled locally without the user needing to do any administration or configuration * Contra: If the setting “leaks” (such as by template having an exception which is not properly caught by the engine, etc.) it may influence othe application parts and break them.