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<h1>Alternate PHP Syntax for View Files</h1>
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<p>If you do not utilize CodeIgniter's <a href="../libraries/parser.html">template engine</a>, you'll be using pure PHP
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in your View files. To minimize the PHP code in these files, and to make it easier to identify the code blocks it is recommended that you use
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PHPs alternative syntax for control structures and short tag echo statements. If you are not familiar with this syntax, it allows you to eliminate the braces from your code,
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and eliminate "echo" statements.</p>
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<h2>Automatic Short Tag Support</h2>
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<p><strong>Note:</strong> If you find that the syntax described in this page does not work on your server it might
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be that "short tags" are disabled in your PHP ini file. CodeIgniter will optionally rewrite short tags on-the-fly,
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allowing you to use that syntax even if your server doesn't support it. This feature can be enabled in your
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<dfn>config/config.php</dfn> file.</p>
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<p class="important">Please note that if you do use this feature, if PHP errors are encountered
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in your <strong>view files</strong>, the error message and line number will not be accurately shown. Instead, all errors
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will be shown as <kbd>eval()</kbd> errors.</p>
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<h2>Alternative Echos</h2>
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<p>Normally to echo, or print out a variable you would do this:</p>
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<code><?php echo $variable; ?></code>
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<p>With the alternative syntax you can instead do it this way:</p>
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<code><?=$variable?></code>
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<h2>Alternative Control Structures</h2>
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<p>Controls structures, like <var>if</var>, <var>for</var>, <var>foreach</var>, and <var>while</var> can be
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written in a simplified format as well. Here is an example using foreach:</p>
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<var><?php foreach($todo as $item): ?></var><br />
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<li><var><?=$item?></var></li><br />
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<var><?php endforeach; ?></var><br />
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</ul></code>
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<p>Notice that there are no braces. Instead, the end brace is replaced with <var>endforeach</var>.
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Each of the control structures listed above has a similar closing syntax:
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<var>endif</var>, <var>endfor</var>, <var>endforeach</var>, and <var>endwhile</var></p>
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<p>Also notice that instead of using a semicolon after each structure (except the last one), there is a colon. This is
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important!</p>
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<p>Here is another example, using if/elseif/else. Notice the colons:</p>
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<code><var><?php if ($username == 'sally'): ?></var><br />
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<h3>Hi Sally</h3><br />
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<var><?php elseif ($username == 'joe'): ?></var><br />
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<h3>Hi Joe</h3><br />
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<var><?php else: ?></var><br />
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<h3>Hi unknown user</h3><br />
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<var><?php endif; ?></var></code>
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