Server-Side magazine interview, touches on D

[Nick Sabalausky]

"Jesse Phillips" <jessekphillips+D at gmail.com> wrote in message 
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> On Sunday, 29 January 2012 at 23:25:36 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote:
>> The whole industry's moved over keeping server-side code out of the HTML
>
> So the whole industry has moved away from php?

I wish! No, it's moved away from using PHP in an ASP-classic-style. Ie, 
scattering a bunch of <?php ... ?> throughout an HTML document.

> Sure templating is used so mixing php and html is as common, but if I'm 
> not mistaken <? is still ?> used a lot, I don't know how to use PHP 
> without it.
>

Typically now, a PHP file will start with "<?php" to turn on "PHP-mode", and 
then it'll just leave PHP-mode on for the rest of the file. It won't even be 
closed with "?>" - this ensures no stray whitespace is printed, which can 
screw things up (for instance, if you're expecting that HTTP headers are not 
to have been sent yet.)