On May 7, 4:20 am, Pakku <pa...@soccermail.com> wrote:
> On this sitehttp://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/php/2001/05/03/php_foundations.html
> I discovered that I could embed php variables in html using this
> notation
>
> The variable $var has a value of: <?=$var?><br />
>
> But I think this doesn't work with php version 5 and above. I
> searched and searched on the web to confirm this but it was rather
> difficult (I can't, for example, search on the string "<?=")
>
> I did see one reference which discouraged the use of this approach
> because of some XML compliance issue.
>
> Would appreciate hearing from you all about this, I found it much
> easier to do this than reams of echo statements to generate html.

I don't know because I've not tried it, but have you tried <?php=$var?
> to see what you get? Just asking out of curiosity, as I tend to just
use Smarty to handle the presentation parts of a web app.