phptags

phptags is a simple commandline tool to automate the rewriting of PHP open and close tags.

• It can convert between short and long open tags.
• Add missing close tags.
• Or strip close tags.
• Correct leading or trailing whitespace issues.

It utilizes either regex and/or the tokenizer.

project pages

• http://freecode.com/projects/phptags (updates)
• http://include-once.org/p/phptags/ (download)
• http://fossil.include-once.org/phptags (repository)
• http://apt.include-once.org/ (packages)

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 ^ for the complete reference.