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Thursday, 18 April 2013

PHP Short Tags

PHP Short Tags

You know when you just want to prepopulate a form or add one PHP variable into the middle of a an HTML block. Well having to write an open PHP tag and then a close PHP with all of the line breaks and indentions to make it readable is such a pain. So what is the solution? PHP short tags like this.



1<?php
2    $example 'This is some text that I want in my paragraph.';
3?>
4<html>
5    <head>
6    </head>
7    <body>
8        <h1>I love short tags</h1>
9        <p>
10        < ?php
11            echo $example;
12        ?>
13        </p>
14    </body>
15</html>
16</pre>
17Personally I like to get things done with as little typing and code as possible, so I am not a fan of this.  I love my short tags.
18<pre>
19<?php
20    $example 'This is some text that I want in my paragraph.';
21?>
22<html>
23    <head>
24    </head>
25    <body>
26        <h1>I love short tags</h1>
27        <p>
28        < ?=$example?>
29        </p>
30    </body>
31</html>


That will produce the exact same output as the first but much neater and with a little less code.

NOTE: Short tags is something that can be disabled in the php.ini so it is not guaranteed to work but industry standard has short tags enabled.




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