We have talked about this before, and the conclusion was that if we are
going to have an invalid PI, we might as well make it <?= since it is
just as invalid as <?php= and just as easy to parse. Now you save 8 chars.
-Rasmus
Gwynne Raskind wrote:
> For the sake of the heck of it, I'm gonna offer up this tiny patch I'm
> using in one of my projects. I don't really care if it gets included in
> anything or not, just thought it might interest someone.
>
> Effect: Adds a "<?php=" syntax which behaves identically to "<?=", but
> works without the use of short_tags.
> Caveat: The formation "<?php=" is not valid XML. Specifically, section
> 2.6 of [1] defines a PITarget as a Name, which in turn is made up of
> NameChars (section 2.3), which do not include the "=" character.
> Advantage: Saves five characters of typing. "<?php= $myvar ?>" versus
> "<?php echo $myvar; ?>".
>
> Just thought I'd throw it out there.
>
> Index: Zend/zend_language_scanner.l
> ===================================================================
> --- Zend/zend_language_scanner.l (revision 286353)
> +++ Zend/zend_language_scanner.l (working copy)
> @@ -1537,6 +1588,15 @@
> }
>
>
> +<INITIAL>"<?php=" {
> + zendlval->value.str.val = yytext; /* no copying - intentional */
> + zendlval->value.str.len = yyleng;
> + zendlval->type = IS_STRING;
> + BEGIN(ST_IN_SCRIPTING);
> + return T_OPEN_TAG_WITH_ECHO;
> +}
> +
> +
> <INITIAL>"<?php"([ \t]|{NEWLINE}) {
> zendlval->value.str.val = yytext; /* no copying - intentional */
> zendlval->value.str.len = yyleng;
>
> [1] Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 Fifth Edition,
> http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/REC-xml-20081126/
>
> -- Gwynne
>
>
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