PHP 标记

当解析一个文件时，PHP 会寻找起始和结束标记，也就是 <?php 和 ?>，这告诉 PHP 开始和停止解析二者之间的代码。此种解析方式使得 PHP 可以被嵌入到各种不同的文档中去，而任何起始和结束标记之外的部分都会被 PHP 解析器忽略。

PHP 有一个 echo 标记简写 <?=，它是更完整的 <?php echo 的简写形式。

Example #1 PHP 开始和结束标记


1.  <?php echo 'if you want to serve PHP code in XHTML or XML documents,
                use these tags'; ?>

2.  You can use the short echo tag to <?= 'print this string' ?>.
    It's equivalent to <?php echo 'print this string' ?>.

3.  <? echo 'this code is within short tags, but will only work '.
            'if short_open_tag is enabled'; ?>

短标记 (第三个例子) 是被默认开启的，但是也可以通过 short_open_tag php.ini 来直接禁用。如果 PHP 在被安装时使用了 --disable-short-tags 的配置，该功能则是被默认禁用的。

Note:
因为短标记可以被禁用，所以建议使用普通标记 (<?php ?> 和 <?= ?>) 来最大化兼容性。

如果文件内容仅仅包含 PHP 代码，最好在文件末尾删除 PHP 结束标记。这可以避免在 PHP 结束标记之后万一意外加入了空格或者换行符，会导致 PHP 开始输出这些空白，而脚本中此时并无输出的意图。


<?php
echo "Hello world";

// ... more code

echo "Last statement";

// the script ends here with no PHP closing tag

User Contributed Notes

anisgazig at gmail dot com 24-Oct-2021 10:28


There is no defference between normal(<?php ?>) and short echo tag() but without uses of comments.

example:



<h1>Normal tag with c++ style oneline comment:  <?php //"Normal tag"; ?> breaks php mode and return html mode  </h1>



<h1>html code after (normal tag)<?php // and commnet then (closing tag) ?> breaks php mode and return html mode</h1>



but in short echo tag

<h1>html code after (short echo tag)<?php // and commnet then (closing tag) ?> breaks php mode and does not return html mode</h1>



Same rules are applied within # and /**/ style comments.

anisgazig at gmail dot com 24-Oct-2021 02:28


If you want your file to be interpreted as php then your file must start and end with <?php and ?> and everything outside of that is ignored by the php parser.



<?php 

php code..//parsed 

php code..//parsed

?>

hellow..//normal test but ignred by php parser



Three types of tag are available in php

1.normal tag(<?php ?>)

2.short echo tag(<?= ?>)

3.short tag(<? ?>)



short tag are bydefault available but can be disabled by short_open_tag = Off and also disabled bydefault if php will  built with --disabe--short--tags()



As short tag can be disabled so only use the normal and short echo tag.



If your file only have php code then  do not use closing tag.

<?php

//php code;

//php code;

//php code;



 but if you are embedding php with html then enclose php code with opening and closing tag.

<html>

<head>

</head>

<body>

<?php 

//php code;

//php code;

//php code;



?>

</body>

</html>



If you want to just print single text or something ,you should use shorthand version .<?= $var ?>



But if you want to process something, you should use normal tag.

 <?php 

        //$var = 3;

        //$var2 = 2;

        //$var3 = $var+$var2;

        //if($var3){//result}



?>

 

If you embedded php with html and single line, do not need to use semicolon

<html>

<head>

<body>

<?= $var ?>

</body>

</head>

</html>

 but if you have multiple line, then use semicolon.

<?php 

//line 1;

//line 2;

//line 3;

?>

admin at bharatt dot com dot np 31-May-2021 04:51


You may want to know that removing semicolon is optional sometime but need to know the condition when it can be removed and when it can't be.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------

// Example 1: PHP script with closing tag at the end.

<?php



// php code



// you can remove semicolon

mysqli_close( $db )

?>



// Example 2: PHP script without closing tag at the end.

<?php



// php code 



// you can't remove semicolon

mysqli_close( $db )



-----------------------------------------------------------------------

anisgazig at gmail dot com 30-Jan-2021 04:45


Everything inside a pair of opening and closing tag is interpreted by php parser. Php introduced three types of opening and closing tag.

1.Standard tags

<?php ?>

2.Short echo tag

<?=  ?>

here, <?=  is equivalent meaning of "<?php echo" 

3.Short tag

<?   ?>



Standard tag and short echo tag are alwayes available.

But short tag can be disabled either via the short_open_tag php.ini configuration file directive, or are disabled by default if PHP is built with the --disable-short-tags configuration.



If a file contains only PHP code, it is preferable to omit the PHP closing tag at the end of the file.

This prevents accidental whitespace or new lines being added after the PHP closing tag