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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Object oriented page templates in PHP
From: cogo@starzinger.net (Christer Edvartsen)

On 04/09/2012 05:10 PM, Tom Boutell wrote:
> What if PHP supported a short tag for calling a method of $this?
>
> Then one could write:
>
> <?@escape($foo) ?>
>
> And 'escape' could be upgraded and modified as needed in an object
> oriented way without the need to type<?php $this->  many times.

You might be able to achieve this using the prep extension written by 
Andrei Zmievski: https://github.com/andreiz/prep/

A relevant example can be found here: 
https://github.com/andreiz/prep/tree/master/examples/array_literal where 
he introduces an alternative syntax to array().


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