Hi everyone,
This is the tiniest of issues, but it's bugged me for a long time and
makes the HTML produced by PHP code less readable than it out to be.
Specifically, PHP ignores a newline immediately following a ?> tag. The
reason for this is, from what I recall, to prevent issues where
whitespace at the end of a PHP file is echoed before headers can be
sent. On UNIX in particular, all text files (should) end in a newline,
so this is a reasonable and necessary feature.
However, for ?> tags anywhere that aren't right at the end of the file,
this is just a nuisance that makes for messy output. For example, HTML
output that should look like:
<table>
<tr>
<td>foo</td>
<td>bar</td>
</tr>
</table>
May instead end up looking something like:
<table> <tr>
<td>foo</td> <td>bar</td>
</tr></table>
Of course, HTML doesn't matter so much, it'll render the same to the
end-user. However, for outputting e.g. plain text, newlines can be
significant, and so you have to insert an ugly and surprising extra
newline following a tag.
Would anyone object to me changing how PHP handles this so that only the
final ?> tag consumes its following newline, and only at the end of the
file?
Thanks!
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Andrea Faulds
https://ajf.me/
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