Ryan Byrd's Tech Ramblings

Wed 21 Nov 2007

    foreach($list as $item)
    {
        echo $item;
    } 

can be done as:

    foreach($list as $item):
        echo $item;
    endforeach

<?

$somevar="hello";

?>

<?=$somevar?>

2 Responses to “two interesting PHP items for the day”

1. Reluctant says:

   November 22, 2007 at 10:04 am

   The syntax of #1 is actually a carry over from earlier versions of PHP. Specifically, PHP 2, which was called PHP/FI (PHP/Form Interpreter) used this syntax.

   As an interesting side note, if you examine a compiled smarty template, you might notice this same syntax.
2. MattW says:

   January 24, 2008 at 10:15 am

   Also, short tags can occasionally do things you don’t expect. For example, if a file with a php-processed extension happens to contain an xml header:

   You now have a syntax error.