phptags

phptags is a simple command-line tool to automate the alteration of open and close tags in PHP scripts.

• It can convert between short <mark><?</mark> and long <mark><?php</mark> open token variations.
• Add missing <mark>?></mark> close tokens.
• Excise <mark>?></mark> close tags.
• Correct leading or trailing <mark>␣</mark> whitespace / UTF-8 BOM issues around them.

It utilizes either regex and/or the tokenizer.

project pages

• http://freshcode.club/projects/phptags ← update announcements
• <mark>http://include-once.org/p/phptags/</mark> ← download
• http://fossil.include-once.org/phptags ← repository
• http://apt.include-once.org/ ← APT archive

usage examples

• phptags --whitespace *.php cleans up spaces or UTF-8 BOM issues before opening and after close tags
• phptags --warn directory/ searches through a directory and just warns about whitespace issues
• phptags --close --long --tokenizer *.php adds close tags, converts open tags into long form <?php and uses the more reliable --tokenizer mode (instead of --regex)
• phptags --unclosed --shortall dir/ ../*.tpl includes/ converts all tags into short forms, and strips close tags of a document (it's advised to rather have whitespace issues fixed than keep using the newcomer workaround)

See also --help or the manpage^misref(http://fossil.include-once.org/phptags/finfo?name=manpage.1) for the complete reference.

And "Why would one omit the close tag?" on the rationale of preferring automatic fixing of --whitespace over relying on --unclosed PHP scripts.

1. ^{^} Misreference