Removing the closing PHP tags from Eclipse PDT templates

Florian — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 03:41:57 +0000

Like many PHP developers who use Eclipse PDT, your first step after creating a new PHP file is probably to remove the closing ?> tag that Eclipse puts in it for you. Today I did those same three keystrokes (or more if you don't use keyboard shortcuts) to remove the damn closing PHP tag (whose absence is part of many coding standards), and decided to never do it again manually. The solution is quite simple:

Just use the values of the existing site...

Florian — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 16:08:28 +0000

The problem: you need to turn the values of an HTML select element into a PHP array, and you don't want to do it by hand because it has a lot of entries.

The solution: regular expressions! (using Eclipse's regex search/replace).

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Removing the closing PHP tags from Eclipse PDT templates

Just use the values of the existing site...