[imp] General: trashy style

[Miroslaw Jaworski]

* Jan Schneider (jan@horde.org) [020118 12:30] wrote:
> Zitat von Miroslaw Jaworski <mjaw@ipartners.pl>:
> 
> > Hi 
> > 
> > Is it really needed to have 3 concurrent ways of openings tags for 
> > PHP code? ( <?php <? <?= ) ( Horde2/IMP3 )
> > 
> > Many my collegues consider such "style" annoying. 
> > Someone else thinks the same ?
> 
> <? shouldn't be there. See docs/CODING_STANDARDS for details.

# find horde-2.0 -type f -exec fgrep "<? " {} \;
<? 
<? if (isset($style)) { ?>
<? } ?>
Always use <?php ?> to delimit PHP code, not the <? ?> shorthand.
<form name="horde_login" method="post" action="<? Horde::pselfURL() ?>">

# find horde-2.0 -type f -exec fgrep -l "<? " {} \;
horde-2.0/admin/css/index.php
horde-2.0/docs/CODING_STANDARDS
horde-2.0/templates/login/login.inc

Ok, i can presume its mistake and will be fixed.
( noone noticed because everyone was forced to switch to php short tags,
when it's working ).

Anyway - it's just the proof that multiplying tags IS a trashy style :)
By using <?= site admins are forced to allow short tags.

At least until they do
find . -type f -exec perl -pi -e 's#<\?= #<?php echo #g' {} \;

As you can see: using full tags is compatible with ANY site policy
( our is to use full tags ), while short tags - not. 
And using <?php for most of the codings dont change that until there 
are <?= occurences ( who the hell "invented" it ?! - sure he didn't heard 
about Ockham's Razor... )

Regards

MJ.

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