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Request #30044 Don't require php tags for shell scripts.
Submitted: 2004-09-10 00:46 UTC Modified: 2004-09-10 09:20 UTC
From: nconantj at frontiernet dot net Assigned:
Status: Wont fix Package: Feature/Change Request
PHP Version: Irrelevant OS: Linux
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2004-09-10 00:46 UTC] nconantj at frontiernet dot net 
Description:
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I would deeply appreciate it if I could write a PHP shell script without the PHP required tags.

As far as implementing this, make it a command line option for the CLI (--notags).

PHP is a powerful language that could be more easily used for system shell scripts with this ability.  I would be able to write a script as follows:

#!/usr/bin/php --notags
<<code>>

rather than as:

#!/usr/bin/php
<?php
  <<code>>
?>

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 [2004-09-10 00:55 UTC] rasmus@php.net 
You should read the output of: php -h
 [2004-09-10 04:48 UTC] nconantj at frontiernet dot net 
The only option there that is approaching relevent is -r, but that requires some form of quoting to prevent the shell from parsing it, and it requires that every line have a backslash (\) just prior to the new line.
 [2004-09-10 09:20 UTC] derick@php.net 
This was brought up before a couple of times, and it was decided that we will not add this.
 
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