Major advantages and disadvantages in using , <% in php

Question

hi i saw there are four types of tags using in php .

<?php

?>

and

<?

?>

and

<script language=“php”>

</script>

and

<%

%>

and only the first one is using and others are deprecated .

i want to know the major advantages and disadvantages of each . and want to know why the 2 ,3 ,4 ones are deprecated .

There's no advantages to using deprecated features... sooner or later you'll probably trip over an issue using them. The second example is probably the most widely used outside of the first, and migrate a script with short tags to a server where they're disabled is a pain. » http://stackoverflow.com/questions/200640/are-php-short-tags-acceptable-to-use — Ben Everard, Aug 02 '11 at 08:46

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 02 '11 at 08:44

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I think the disadvantage of deprecated tags is that they are common in other languages too, not only php.

answered Aug 02 '11 at 08:44

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 02 '11 at 11:00

0

They are going to be deprecated in php6

Because these php short tags are not supported on all servers

answered Aug 02 '11 at 11:00

Sumair Zafar

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I assume you mean PHP 7, as there is no PHP 6 – rink.attendant.6 Jun 14 '15 at 00:58
When this answer was posted, PHP7 was not released and the next probable version to come out was v6 – Sujit Agarwal Aug 13 '18 at 07:47

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