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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] [RFC Idea] Short echo tag with automatic HTML escaping
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Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2025 14:31:37 +0100
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From: cschneid@cschneid.com (Christian Schneider)

Am 24.12.2025 um 09:14 schrieb Rob Landers <rob@bottled.codes>:
> I know this is not your intent, but this will give people a false =
sense of security. Much like Twig and Blade do today.

I think this is an important point as many on this list will object to =
such a feature because of this.
What I mean by this: The main obstacle is not the specific syntax but =
the feature in general.
I mean this as a heads-up for the original poster to be not too =
disappointed when (not "if" - in my personal opinion) it gets shot down.

> Here's some examples where this breaks, written in the context of an =
html doc:

This is just the tip of the iceberg.

> Maybe, you should consider something like this:
>=20
> <?:html: or <?:h:
> <?:attr:
> <?:url:
> <?:js:
> <?:css:

I'm pretty sure for at least some of them one can find issues with a =
generic quoting, e.g. character encoding other than UTF-8.
Or what schemes are allowed for a URL, e.g. you might want to disallow =
javascript:.

All in all I much prefer this to be part of a framework which knows =
about edge cases than to be a language feature.
Or maybe something like the template strings t"foo" in Python but that's =
a different approach to Twig-like templates.

Regards,
- Chris