Comments on: PHP’s alternative syntax and why it’s useful

By: wildanr

wildanr — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 11:12:47 +0000

So i guest we don’t need templating system anymore huh?

By: syabac

syabac — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 09:33:54 +0000

agree,
alternative syntax realy useful when the code mixed with others code, such as JavaScript or HTML.

it made the code more readable and clear.

By: moto kurye

moto kurye — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 10:51:35 +0000

PHP’s alternative syntax and why it’s useful | Ask About PHP great article thank you.

By: perpa muhasebe

perpa muhasebe — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 21:53:01 +0000

PHP’s alternative syntax and why it’s useful | Ask About PHP great article thank you.

By: Jacob Rask

Jacob Rask — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 13:13:29 +0000

One thing to note is that the one row short function (not having to use brackets) does not work with this alternative syntax.

If you have an if statement with only one row to execute, leaving out the { }, with the original syntax you can still have an else statement after that and use brackets, but if you first have an if statement with neither brackets nor : your ‘else:’ statement will break.

By: Raymond Selda

Raymond Selda — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 13:50:16 +0000

I dabble in CodeIgniter but I have to admit that I don’t really like writing alternative syntax for PHP, but because of your wonderful explanation and example, it made much more sense to me now. Wordpress template files also uses this kind of syntax. Nice article. Thank you.

By: ken

ken — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 20:47:29 +0000

more simple

$a = !!$a;

By: bloky

bloky — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 14:32:11 +0000

@#3,
And you think problems writing a XML tag is good?

By: Sylvain

Sylvain — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 13:04:20 +0000

You can also use short tags :

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