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Subject: Another tiny syntax patch
From: gwynne@darkrainfall.org (Gwynne Raskind)

For the sake of the heck of it, I'm gonna offer up this tiny patch I'm  
using in one of my projects. I don't really care if it gets included  
in anything or not, just thought it might interest someone.

Effect: Adds a "<?php=" syntax which behaves identically to "<?=", but  
works without the use of short_tags.
Caveat: The formation "<?php=" is not valid XML. Specifically, section  
2.6 of [1] defines a PITarget as a Name, which in turn is made up of  
NameChars (section 2.3), which do not include the "=" character.
Advantage: Saves five characters of typing. "<?php= $myvar ?>" versus  
"<?php echo $myvar; ?>".

Just thought I'd throw it out there.

Index: Zend/zend_language_scanner.l
===================================================================
--- Zend/zend_language_scanner.l	(revision 286353)
+++ Zend/zend_language_scanner.l	(working copy)
@@ -1537,6 +1588,15 @@
  }


+<INITIAL>"<?php=" {
+	zendlval->value.str.val = yytext; /* no copying - intentional */
+	zendlval->value.str.len = yyleng;
+	zendlval->type = IS_STRING;
+	BEGIN(ST_IN_SCRIPTING);
+	return T_OPEN_TAG_WITH_ECHO;
+}
+
+
  <INITIAL>"<?php"([ \t]|{NEWLINE}) {
  	zendlval->value.str.val = yytext; /* no copying - intentional */
  	zendlval->value.str.len = yyleng;

[1] Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 Fifth Edition, http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/REC-xml-20081126/

-- Gwynne