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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 10:15:41 -0600
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To: Rob Landers <rob@bottled.codes>
From: pmjones@pmjones.io ("Paul M. Jones")

Hi all,

> On Dec 24, 2025, at 02:14, Rob Landers <rob@bottled.codes> wrote:
>=20
> Maybe, you should consider something like this:
>=20
> <?:html: or <?:h:
> <?:attr:
> <?:url:
> <?:js:
> <?:css:
>=20
> Then you only choose the one for your context:
>=20
> const name =3D <?:js: $name ?>
>=20
> <a href=3D"/search?q=3D<?:attr: $query ?>"...
>=20
> window.config=3D<?:js: $config ?>
>=20
> .size { width=3D<?:css: $width ?>; } //prevents ;}.size:after { =
content=3D"<a..."
>=20
> Its a bit more to type, but compared to googling the right way to do =
these in all the right places and vetting/hoping that it is right... it =
seems worth it.

For what it's worth, that is much how Qiq works:

- {{ ... }} will not echo at all by itself
- {{=3D ... }} will echo raw unescaped output
- {{h ... }} will echo escaped for HTML content
- {{a ... }} will echo escaped for HTML attributes
- {{u ... }} will echo escaped for URLs
- {{c ... }} will echo escaped for CSS
- {{j ... }} will echo escaped for JavaScript

<https://qiqphp.com/3.x/syntax.html>


-- pmj