RAPID - PHP Close Tag Not Required

[Will Fastie]

According to the PSR-2: Coding Style Guide:

• The closing ?> tag MUST be omitted from files containing only PHP.

Currently, Rapid shows the <?php tag as unbalanced if the closing ?> is not present in the file.

Therefore I suggest adding the following option to Preferences | Language Options | PHP:

• Do not require a closing ?> when a file contains only PHP.

Note that a PHP syntax check does not trip an error when the ?> is omitted.

It has become clear to me that omitting the closing ?> is a good programming practice because it can prevent stream errors.

[pmk65]

+1

I always remove it.

[Will Fastie]

I'm just starting to remove it. But it's not helpful when the editor flags it as an unclosed tag when it's legal syntax.

[Aivars]

I'll +2 the relevant suggestion. For now don't pay any attention to the red opening tag. Thanks.

[Will Fastie]

Thanks. I am ignoring the highlight but because I am still a bit new to Rapid I'm sensitive to everything.

[Will Fastie]

I also noticed that the file created by File | New | PHP Script creates a file that includes the closing of the PHP tag.

[Aivars]

You can open %APPDATA%\Blumentals\WeBuilder\templates\PHP and edit Empty.php and change its contents to whatever you like.

[Will Fastie]

%APPDATA%\Blumentals\WeBuilder\templates\PHP

%APPDATA%\Blumentals\Rapid PHP\templates\PHP

This made me wonder whether some things should be one level up, as in

%APPDATA%\Blumentals\templates\PHP

or

%APPDATA%\Blumentals\editors\templates\PHP

I'm not making a feature request, just wondering...