One of the nice things about php is that the '<?>' keys are close to
each other. One of the annoying things about asp and jsp is that '<>'
use one hand, and '%' uses another.
Attached is a patch to erb.rb that allows ?'s as well as %'s in erb
templates:
<% puts "this works" %>
<? puts "as does this" ?>
Let me know if there is anything I can do to make this a better patch.
If you want to play with this, you can grab the patched version of erb
from narf:
http://svn.narf-lib.org/svn/narf/trunk/lib/web/phprb.rb
I renamed the constant to PHPRB, so as not to collide with the standard
lib.
Cheers,
Patrick
+1 in concept, because XML standards suggest it this way, too. However,
<?ruby is better, following the XML processing-instructions spec.
I've had some trouble sending the patch over. It is available here:
http://www.narf-lib.org/php.erb.patch
Cheers,
Patrick
or just, <?r ?>
(The PHP people say not to use shorttags (<?= $var ?>) too, there was
a zend contest here the 2nd place guy got put down to 6th for that!
And the best prizes were in the top 5 :p )
Douglas
> +1 in concept, because XML standards suggest it this way, too. However,
> <?ruby is better, following the XML processing-instructions spec.
Why bother? I don't think something like
<a href="foo/?baz=<?ruby print xyz.poo(42) ?>">
is valid XML either.
> Hello,
>
> One of the nice things about php is that the '<?>' keys are close to
> each other. One of the annoying things about asp and jsp is that '<>'
> use one hand, and '%' uses another.
That's because you're using the wrong keyboard. Switch to dvorak
layout. ;)
Its even easier than <?, because you're not using your pinky to hit one
of the keys.
(No, really this kinda stuff is useful. :)
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+1 for <?r (which IIRC is Nitro's way of doing things :)
<?r if user.role("admin") ?>
...
<?r end ?>
or even
<?ruby .... ?>
or even
<ruby>...</ruby>
check this out: www.rubyforge.com/projects/nitro
but,
<a href="foo/?baz=#{xyz.poo(42)}">...</a>
as used in Nitro is valid xml :)
-G.
<a href="foo/?baz=23" <?ruby if xyz.poo(42) ?> target="moep"
<?ruby else ?> title="Example" <?ruby end ?>>
Get pragmatic and allow both <?r and <?ruby. :-)
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