Anyone have a tool/script to convert <? to <?php (but not <?=) [deprecated]

[Daevid Vincent]

As far as I'm aware, <? Has been deprecated and so having code that relies
upon it could require us to stay at certain PHP version levels that support
it. Or has this idea been abandoned? I remember lots of flurry about it, but
as I recall it was over the confusion where people thought that <?= was
going away when it was only to be <? (which most people agreed was
acceptable to be rid of)

http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.basic-syntax.phptags.php
http://asoke.wordpress.com/2012/01/06/short-open-tags-will-be-removed-in-php
-6/

-----Original Message-----
Sent: Friday, February 14, 2014 11:21 AM
To: Aziz Saleh
Subject: Re: [PHP] Anyone have a tool/script to convert <? to <?php (but

not

<?=)
+1...
You could not be so picky about inherited code and just change them when
you come across them.
--jk

What I posted (and all the others) would work, replacing all instances
of
"<? " (notice the space) with "<?php " should work, it will leave all
existing <?= and <?php alone (since having a space after ? and before
=/php would produce a parser error.
Not sure why you are saying that spaces are irrelevant thou.

*sigh*
<?=$foo?> is perfectly valid so is <?=$foo;?> or any combination WITH
SPACES OR NOT.
If this were trivial, I wouldn't have asked the list. I've been
coding PHP
since 1996. ;-)
So if you have <? you have to make sure it doesn't have a '=' after
the
'?' to convert to '<?php'
Spaces are irrelevant and can NOT be relied upon as a unique feature.

-----Original Message-----
Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2014 2:57 PM
Subject: RE: [PHP] Anyone have a tool/script to convert <? to <?php
(but

not

<?=)
Thanks guys for the replies so far, however, if it were a simple
search

and

replace I wouldn't have to ask ;-)
The trick is that "<?=" is valid and legal and I want to keep those.
I

only

want to change if they are specifically "<?"
Maybe there is some regex guru out there that knows the magic

incantation.

Hello <?= $username; ?>
Note the end semicolon on the variable. I'd want to strip all those
off

too,

but that is also not a trivial task if you think about it as it can
only

be

removed if proceeded with <?=
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