Date: 2014-09-09
Status: Accepted
Targeting: PHP 7
This RFC proposes the removal of ASP tags (<%) and script tags (<script language=php>) as a means of entering or leaving PHP mode.
The following syntactical elements are removed:
<% opening tag
<%= opening tag with echo
%> closing tag
(<script\s+language\s*=\s*(php|"php"|'php')\s*>)i opening tag
(</script>)i closing tag
The listed opening tags will no longer enter PHP mode and the listed closing tags will no longer leave PHP mode.
Additionally the asp_tags ini directive is removed. Trying to enable asp_tags will result in a core error.
This RFC does not remove short opening tags (<?) or short opening tags with echo (<?=).
The alternative PHP tags have never gained any significant degree of usage. Their usage has been discouraged since forever.
The ASP tags depend on an ini directive and as such are non-portable. We generally try to move away from ini-dependent language behavior. With ASP tags removed, short open tags should be the last.
Supporting different tags allows very weird mixing like <script language=php> echo "foo" %>
To simplify porting of legacy code using the alternative tags, a porting script is provided. The script takes a directory and will replace ASP and script tags in all .php files contained in this directory:
php -d asp_tags=1 portAlternativeTags.php dir/Vote
The vote started on 2014-09-24 and ended on 2014-10-01. The required 2/3 majority has been reached, as such this RFC is accepted.
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