[TYPO3-core] CGL proposal: Dropping the closing PHP tag

Dmitry Dulepov dmitry.dulepov at gmail.com
Mon Oct 22 12:10:08 CEST 2012


Hi!

Andreas Wolf wrote:
> I'd like to propose a change to our CGL to get rid of the closing PHP tag.
>
> I don't see a good reason why it is there, but it creates a lot of
> hazzle with our "no trailing newline" rule, especially when doing a
> quick fix without an IDE (I don't control these settings in every
> editor I use).
>
> Dropping the closing tag will make sure that no content in the PHP
> file can slip into the output (which is AFAIK at least one main reason
> why we have the "no newline"-rule).
>
> What's your opinion on that?

+1 to remove the closing tag. I am already doing that for about 1.5 years 
in private extensions.

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Dmitry Dulepov

Simplicity will save the world.



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