Any one knows what it exactly means in php <?=

Hi all,
I am new to php. I saw this in some web site forum. What is it exactly means. Any one knows please let me know.

Thanking you
sure

 

yeah it meens <?php echo

 

yes and this method will only work for single lined scripts, such as:

<?= "hello world" ?>

PHP:

 

Huh? It will work anywhere.

 

<?="Text."?> is a shortcut for <?php echo "Text."; ?>.

 

It's very useful when you're dealing with php templating. It makes doing templates and printing our variables a lot easier in terms of number of characters you need to type in. It also looks cleaner in my opinion.

 

That syntax drives me nuts.

It takes me soo much longer to work out bugs when I have HTML with PHP in it VS PHP that loads XML/HTML and saves cached pages.

Especially when you start getting stuff like

<?php if(true){ ?>
<div>...</div>
<?php } ?>

Code (markup):

Not to mention it screws my snippets and syntax highlighting in gedit up something fierce.

 

100% agree.

 

You should not use it as is not standard. Use

as it's standard and would work fine on many invironments.

 

Why is it not standard? They should both work on any enviroment assuming short-tags are enabled, which they are by default.

 

If you are integrating php with html than only use it else simple echo is good; although its recommended to use <?php since only <? or <?= might not work in some environments (many Win Versions).

 

Do not use the short syntax. Alway use the long one. Not all php servers have it enabled.

 

They are short tags+echo in php a short cut for <?php echo $something; ?> as <?=$something


but in order to use them they should be enabled in the php.ini

Try to avoid them and use the full syntax instead
eg.,
<?php ?>