I looked a little more and I modify my earlier answer to: “definitely convert it”. It’s easy with the PHP-CLI converter below. Make sure that the system you run this on is configured with short_open_tag=on
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#!php-cli
$token) {
if(is_array($token)) {
list($toktype, $src) = $token;
if ($toktype == T_OPEN_TAG) {
if (($src == "") && ($tokens[$ix+1][0] != T_STRING)) {
$src = "