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all syntax:
<?php
if($true)
{
echo "true";
}
else
{
echo "false";
}
?>
<?php
if($true)
echo "true";
else
echo "false";
?>
<?php
if($true):
echo "true";
else
echo "false";
endif;
?>
Iranian php programming(farhad zandmoghadam)
Capítulo 10. Sintaxe básica
Alternado/Escaping do HTML
Quando o PHP interpreta um arquivo, ele simplesmente repassa o texto do arquivo até encontrar uma das tags especiais que lhe diz para começar a interpretar o texto como código PHP. O interpretador então executa todo o código que encontra, até chegar em uma tag de fechamento PHP, que novamente o coloca simplesmente repassando texto novamente. Este é o mecanismo que permite a inclusão de código PHP dentro do HTML: qualquer coisa fora das tags PHP é deixado como encontrado, enquanto tudo dentro é interpretado e executado.
Há quatro conjuntos de tags que podem ser usadas para marcar blocos de código PHP. Delas, somente duas (<?php. . .?> e <script language="php">. . .</script>) são sempre disponíveis. As outras podem ser ativadas ou desativadas a partir do arquivo de configuração php.ini. Enquanto as formas reduzidas das tags ou no seu estilo ASP serem convenientes, elas não são portáveis em todas as versões. Além disso, se você pretende incluir código PHP em XML ou XHTML, você precisará usar a forma <?php ... ?> para compatibilidade com o padrão XML.
As tags suportadas pelo PHP são:
O primeiro método, <?php. . .?>, é o preferencial, já que ele permite o uso do PHP em códigos padrão XML como o XHTML.
O segundo método pode não estar sempre disponível. Tags curtas estão disponíveis apenas quando ativadas. Isto pode ser realizando através da função short_tags() (PHP 3 somente), ativando a diretiva de configuração short_open_tag no arquivo de configuração do PHP ou compilando o PHP com a opção --enable-short-tags no configure. Mesmo que ele esteja configurado por default no php.ini-dist, o uso de tags curtas é desencorajado.
O terceiro método está sempre disponível e é tão seguro quanto o primeiro, Entretanto, o primeiro é o preferível e o mais usado normalmente.
A quarta maneira só está disponível se a tag estilo ASP estiver ativada utilizando a diretiva asp_tags no arquivo de configuração.
Nota: O suporte as tags estilo ASP foi incorporada na versão 3.0.4.
Nota: A utilização das tags curtas deve ser evitada quando do desenvolvimento de aplicações ou bibliotecas com intenção de redistribuição ou no desenvolvimento de serviços em PHP que não ficarão sob seu controle, uma vez que as tags curtas podem não estar disponíveis no servidor de instalação. Para portabilidade de código para distribuição, tenha certeza de não usar tags curtas.
A tag de fechamento incluirá uma linha nova linha em branco automaticamente se uma não estiver presente. Além, a tag de fechamento automaticamente implica num ponto e vírgula: você não precisa ter um ponto e vírgula no fim da última linha de código PHP. Fechar o bloco de PHP no final do arquivo é opcional.
O PHP também suporta a utilização de estruturas como essa:
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User Contributed Notes
Sintaxe básica
php_engineer_bk at yahoo dot com
29-Sep-2010 10:42
mattsch at gmail dot com
25-Jun-2008 01:46
Less is more. The shortest and easiest way to deal with the xml tag problem assuming short tags is enabled and you don't care to listen to people who want you to always use the full php tag is this:
<<??>?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
Tona at spikesource dot com
03-May-2007 03:22
Jascam: Try to find more resourceful information to make your point. Your lack of ability to understand more complex concepts is not enough to diminish such a popular language as PHP. Note also that php is not replacing html but complementing it.
Geekman at Textbook Torrents dot com
04-Mar-2007 05:19
Regarding the comment by rosswilliams at advocacytechnologies dot org:
Your suspicion is correct. The following all behave exactly the same:
<?php
// output the answer by escaping
if ($true_or_false) {
?>
<p>The value of $true_or_false is true.</p>
<?php
} else {
?>
<p>The value of $true_or_false is false.</p>
<?php
}
// use echo to do the same thing - more effecient and easier to read in my opinion
if ($true_or_false) {
echo '<p>The value of $true_or_false is true.</p>';
} else {
echo '<p>The value of $true_or_false is false.</p>';
}
// use ? : operators on entire string
echo ($true_or_false) ? '<p>The value of $true_or_false is true.</p>' : '<p>The value of $true_or_false is false.</p>';
// use ? : operators only on the pertinent bit, to save space
echo '<p>The value of $true_or_false is ' . (($true_or_false) ? 'true' : 'false') . '.</p>';
?>
alfridus
23-Jul-2006 04:53
Only this work:
<?php
$xml = '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>';
echo $xml;
?>
with space after '<?php' and before ' ?>', no spacing between
'<?xml' and a semicolon after '"no"?>';'.
brettz9 at yahoo dot com
02-Apr-2006 08:04
I've essentially tried to synthesize this
discussion at
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Programming:
Complete_PHP/Escaping_from_HTML
One point not brought up yet...
The HEREDOC problem with some text editors
may be fixable in at least some text editors
by adding a comment with a quotation mark
as such afterwards (albeit necessarily on a
new line):
<?php
$version = "1.0";
print <<<HERE
<?xml version="
HERE;
//"
print $version."\"?>";
?>
Christoph
16-Jan-2006 05:08
Here's an inspiration on how to quickly fix all scripts relying on short_open_tag being enabled:
find -name '*.php' | xargs perl -pi -e 's/<\?= ?(.*?) ?\?>/<?php echo($1); ?>/g'
find -name '*.php' | xargs perl -pi -e 's/<\?/<?php/g'
find -name '*.php' | xargs perl -pi -e 's/<?phpphp/<?php/g
Michael Newton (http://mike.eire.ca/)
12-Dec-2005 03:17
The XML declaration does not need to be handled specially.
You should output it via an echo statement, in case your code is ever used on a server that is (poorly) configured to use short open tags.
But there's no need to treat the ?> at the end of the string specially. That's because it's in a string. The only thing PHP ever looks for in a string is \ or $ (the latter only in double-quoted strings.)
I have never had need for the following, as some have suggested below:
<?php
$xml=rawurldecode('%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%3F%3E');
echo($xml);
?>
<?php echo '<?xml version="1.0" ?'.'>' ?>
<?php echo "<?xml version=\"1.0\"\x3F>" ?>
php [AT] jsomers [DOT] be
23-Sep-2005 12:37
PEAR states:
Always use <?php ?> to delimit PHP code, not the <? ?> shorthand. This is required for PEAR compliance and is also the most portable way to include PHP code on differing operating systems and setups.
It are these small things that enhance readability in group projects, or libraries.
pablo [] littleQ.net
24-Jul-2005 02:06
Just another more "feature" of IE...
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=\"__FILE__\";
__FILE__ can't have spaces or :
Regards
01karlo at gmail dot com
25-Jun-2005 08:44
Or, use the following:
<?php
$xml=rawurldecode('%3C%3Fxml%20version%3D%221.0%22%3F%3E');
echo($xml);
?>
What is does it the value of the variable $xml is the RAW Url Encoded version of the XML thing.
Then it decodes it and echo it to the visitor.
p o r g e s at the gmail dot com server
01-Apr-2005 08:02
mike at skew dot org, I believe the differentiation is that "x"-"m"-"l" as a PI target is explicitly excluded from the definition of processing instructions.
Lachlan Hunt
28-Mar-2005 09:06
The person that suggested the use of this meta element above is wrong:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="application/xml+xhtml; charset=UTF-8" />
That meta element and the XML declaration serve completely different purposes, and that meta element should not be used. Such information should be set using the HTTP Content-Type header (see the header() function).
Any XHTML page that just uses that meta element without proper HTTP Content-Type header, will be processed as text/html by browsers regardless, and when the HTTP headers do serve as application/xhtml+xml (or other XML MIME type), that charset parameter in the meta element will be ignored.
mike at skew dot org
21-Oct-2004 04:53
mart3862 mentions "XML processing instructions" and quotes their syntax from the spec, but is mistaken in using
<?xml version="1.0" ...?>
as an example. This little bit of markup that appears at the beginning of an XML file is in fact not a processing instruction at all; it is an "XML declaration" -- or, if it appears in an entity other than the main document, a "text declaration". All three constructs are formatted slightly differently, although they all do begin and end with the same.
The difference between a processing instruction, an XML declaration, or a text declaration is more than just a matter of subtle differences in syntax, though. A processing instruction embodies exactly two opaque, author-defined pieces of information (a 'target' and an 'instruction') that are considered to be part of the document's logical structure and that are thus made available to an application by the XML parser. An XML or text declaration, on the other hand, contains one to three specific pieces of information (version, encoding, standalone status), each with a well-defined meaning. This info provides cues to the parser to help it know how to read the file; it is not considered part of the document's logical structure and is not made available to the application.
stooges_cubed at racerx dot net
20-Oct-2004 01:13
In the note above about escaping XML/PHP style <?xml tags, the following code was used:
<?php // Html safe containers
echo <<<EOD
<?xml version="1.0"?>
...all sorts of XML goes here...
Nothing will affect the output of this code until:
EOD;
?>
EOD is just an example stop/start name.
This works too:
<?php // Html safe containers
$myOutput = <<<MYHTMLSAFEOUTPUT
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<html>
<title>PHP Example</title>
<body>
<p>...all sorts goes here...</p>
</body>
</html>
MYHTMLSAFEOUTPUT;
echo $myOutput;
?>
Only disadvantage of using this is that all the code highlighting programs I've seen never get it right, making your code look eronous in the majority of viewers.
Another alternative is to keep the XML / HTML in a separate include file and read in when needed. I don't know how efficient/inefficient this is for (idiots like yourselves) small amounts of text.
xmlheader.txt:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
mypage.php:
<?php
include("xmlheader.txt");
?>
crtrue at coastal dot edu
30-Apr-2004 11:02
Although you can use the above methods to pass a document off as a valid for the W3C parser, a simpler-and-perfectly-legal method of doing so is to simple declare the document type in a meta tag. Something along these lines (mind the values in 'content' - I haven't personally used the Content-Type method in awhile):
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="application/xml+xhtml; charset=UTF-8" />
Of course if you're using just XML, and don't use such functions, then the above methods will work just as fine.
mart3862 at yahoo dot com dot au
18-Apr-2004 09:29
Now the ultimate truth on how you should output xml processing instructions:
There have been several posts suggesting ways to include the text <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> in your output when short_tags is turned on, but only the following should be used:
<?php echo '<?xml version="1.0" ?'.'>' ?>
or
<?php echo "<?xml version=\"1.0\"\x3F>" ?>
Using one of these methods, and not making use of short tags, means your source code will also be a valid XML document, which allows you to do many things with it such as validation, XSLT translations, etc, as well as allowing your text editor to parse your code for syntax colouring. Every PHP tag will simply be interpreted as an XML processing instruction (commonly referred to as PI).
The reason why all the other suggested methods are not advisable is because they contain the characters ?> inside the PHP tag, which the XML parser will interpret as the end of the processing instruction.
A processing instruction is defined in XML as:
PI ::= '<?' PITarget (S (Char* - (Char* '?>' Char*)))? '?>'
In other words, it explicitly forbids the characters ?> to occur together within a processing instruction, unless they are delimiting the end of the tag. It also requires a PITarget (an identifier starting with a letter) immediately after the initial start delimiter, which means that all short tag formats are also invalid XML.
Following these guidelines will result in code that is portable to servers with any configuration and allow you perform many useful tasks on your XML or XHTML source documents. Even if you do not intend to validate or translate your source documents, and you can ignore some incorrect syntax colouring in your text editor, it is still best to get into good habits early.
Anon
21-Feb-2004 06:05
Yet another way of adding the XML processing instruction is to use:
<?php echo '<?xml version="1.0" ?'.'>' ?>
Because the ? and > are separated, the parser will not terminate before it is supposed to.
As a side note, the W3C's parser seems to recognise this method (assuming it even checks for the PI).
TarquinWJ
06-Feb-2004 06:54
Not spotted any messages like this one - delete it if there was one.
My hosting service allows <? and ?>, but I like to use valid XHTML, so I came up with this simple solution:
It is possible to use the short tags <? ?> with XHTML or XML documents. The only problem is that X(HT)ML requires a declaration using <? and ?>
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
To avoid the problem, simply replace <? with <<? ?>?
and ?> with ?<? ?>>
<<? ?>?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?<? ?>>
This inserts a blank piece of PHP in between the < and ?, and when parsed will output the regular tag
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
mwild at iee dot NO_SP_AM dot org
19-Dec-2003 05:12
The text between <script> and </script> in XHTML is PCDATA, so < and & characters in it should be interpreted as markup. This is a bit limiting for PHP, which is often used to output tags, though you can of course use < and & instead. To avoid that, which makes your code look peculiar and is easy to forget to do, you can mark the PHP as CDATA, eg :
<script language="PHP">
//<![CDATA[
echo('Today is <b>'.date('l F jS').'</b>');
//]]>
</script>
If you don't do this, and your code contains < or &, it should be rejected by an XHTML validator.
johnbeech at (not saying) mkv25 dot net
07-Dec-2003 04:42
In the note above about escaping XML/PHP style <?xml tags, the following code was used:
<?php // Html safe containers
echo <<<EOD
<?xml version="1.0"?>
...all sorts of XML goes here...
Nothing will affect the output of this code until:
EOD;
?>
EOD is just an example stop/start name.
This works too:
<?php // Html safe containers
$myOutput = <<<MYHTMLSAFEOUTPUT
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<html>
<title>PHP Example</title>
<body>
<p>...all sorts goes here...</p>
</body>
</html>
MYHTMLSAFEOUTPUT;
echo $myOutput;
?>
Only disadvantage of using this is that all the code highlighting programs I've seen never get it right, making your code look eronous in the majority of viewers.
Another alternative is to keep the XML / HTML in a separate include file and read in when needed. I don't know how efficient/inefficient this is for small amounts of text.
xmlheader.txt:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
mypage.php:
<?php
include("xmlheader.txt");
?>
dave at [nospam] dot netready dot biz
18-Mar-2002 04:21
A little "feature" of PHP I've discovered is that the <?PHP token requires a space after it whereas after the <? and <% tokens a space is optional.
The error message you get if you miss the space is not too helpful so be warned!
(These examples only give a warning with error_reporting(E_ALL) )
<?PHP/*<Some HTML>*/?> fails...
<?/*<Some HTML>*/?> works...
mrtidy at mail dot com
12-Dec-2001 12:36
[Ed Note:
This is because of short_tags, <?xml turns php parsing on, because of the <?.
--irc-html@php.net]
I am moving my site to XHTML and I ran into trouble with the <?xml ?> interfering with the <?php ?> method of escaping for HTML. A quick check of the mailing list confirmed that the current preferred method to cleanly output the <?xml ?> line is to echo it:<br>
<?php echo("<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>\n"); ?>