Hi Ilija,
On 14/08/2020 17:14, Ilija Tovilo wrote:
I've been thinking about ways to improve string interpolation. String
interpolation in PHP is currently pretty limited to say the least.
Thanks for putting together some thoughts on this.
My instinct is that rather than having a whole new syntax that's
basically a tweak on "${expression}", we could take the opportunity to
bring more features into the mix. If you think about it, string
interpolation is basically an inline template syntax, so a lot of the
features that are useful in template engines would be useful there.
Specifically:
1) modifiers; e.g. sprintf-style, f"Measure #0.2f{$value}" or
template-style, f"Hello #{$name|escape}"
2) custom rules, like JavaScript's tagged templates [1], e.g. html"Hello
#{$name}" == "Hello " . htmlspecialchars($name)
Put these together, and you can have variables escaped by default, and
opted out via a modifier:
$tag = 'h1';
echo html"<#raw{$tag}>Hello #{$_GET['name']}</#raw{$tag}>";
If we took JS tagged templates as the inspiration, that would de-sugar
to something like:
echo render_html_string(
stringParts: [ '<', '>Hello ', '</', '>' ],
expressions: [ $tag, $_GET['name'], $tag ],
modifiers: [ ['raw'], [], ['raw'] ]
);
It will take a while to figure out the details, but I think a powerful
feature like this is more worthy of adding new syntax.
[1]
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Template_literals
Regards,
--
Rowan Tommins (né Collins)
[IMSoP]
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