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Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2019 16:15:08 +0200
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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC] [DISCUSSION] Deprecate PHP's short open tags V2
From: cmbecker69@gmx.de ("Christoph M. Becker")

On 24.07.2019 at 15:27, G. P. B. wrote:

> On Wed, 24 Jul 2019 at 05:51, <vsuraski@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> - [Short tags]  You need to purposely turn it on in your own deployment=
 -
>> people and companies who use it use it exclusively for internal purpose=
s.
>
> This is just plain wrong since PHP 5.4 as it is enabled by default and y=
ou
> need to actively turn it OFF as which can be seen on https://3v4l.org [1=
]
> as it doesn't use any INI configuration files. Now as stated in the RFC:
>
>> Currently the <? short open tag is controlled by the short_open_tag
>
> ini setting. This ini setting is *enabled* by default (if no ini files i=
s
>> used),
>
> but *disabled* in both php.ini-development and php.ini-production.
>
>
> which is probably why most of us - and most users - think that it needs =
to
> be implicitly enabled.

Maybe the configuration option --(en|dis)able-short-tags adds to this
confusion.

Thanks,
Christoph