Batch script to replace PHP short open tags with <?php

Question

I have a large collection of php files written over the years and I need to properly replace all the short open tags into proper explicit open tags.

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Answer 1

If you're using the tokenizer option, this might be helpful:

$content = file_get_contents($file);
$tokens = token_get_all($content);
$output = '';

foreach($tokens as $token) {
 if(is_array($token)) {
  list($index, $code, $line) = $token;
  switch($index) {
   case T_OPEN_TAG_WITH_ECHO:
    $output .= '

Note that the tokenizer will not properly tokenize short tags if short tags aren't enabled. That is, you can't run this code on the system where short tags aren't working. You must run it elsewhere to convert the code.