2010/3/18 Ashley Sheridan <a...@ashleysheridan.co.uk> > Technically, PHP isn't embedded in any language; it's the other way around. > > XML and PHP are used together more often than you might realise. Consider > Ajax and RSS, which are becoming more and more popular. Also, there are > sites out there that are almost entirely XML-based; just have a look at the > World of Warcraft (yes I play it!) website. > > Sure - XML is often used and served. But in general, a web server only parses PHP-Files (ie. .+\.php\d?) unless you configure your server to parse any file or .xml files. So the XML <? is not a problem at all for the interpreter.
> For me, I originally learnt PHP using the <?php tags. I only found out > about short tags when I first ran into the problem with them on shared > hosting that had them turned off. To me, it didn't make much sense in using > something that wasn't portable. For the same reason, I try to avoid using > obscure PHP modules when I know a system will end up on a closed hosting > platform like this. > > My opinion to this is that I seperate markup from code. I use a template system in my .tpl files and these will never get parsed. Inline PHP is not my choice. But when I'm about to update a project that is written with inline php, I appreciate the short tags for their ease of use. I also enjoy typing less. :-) Regards
