NYCPHP Meetup

[David Krings]

mikesz at qualityadvantages.com wrote:
> Hello and Greetings To All,
> 
> "The closing PHP tag isn't required and actually stops people breaking
> things. We removed it intentionally, since some customers were adding
> whitespace to the end and getting blank pages / cookie errors."
> 
> This was posted by a senior developer for a VERY popular PHP product.
> 
> Any body care to comment on this, I am a little disturbed about where
> it came from having had the white space after the tag problem on more
> than one of the products I have had the joy to troubleshoot... but I
> don't think dropping the closing tag was ever a solution that I
> entertained. I just think its a poor and sloppy approach to problem
> solving. Any comments?
>   


So how does the parser know where PHP ends and HTML starts?

David