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Why do some scripts omit the closing PHP tag, ‘?>’?
I’ve seen in a PHP framework (I can’t remember which) that they didn’t close the php tag (?>) at the bottom of the pages.
Why is that and should I do it too?
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If it’s a PHP file that contains no HTML, then don’t close the tag.
This stops you from accidentally adding whitespace at the end of the file, therefore invoking browser output, and by extension headers, etc, which can cause a world of pain.