short Tag Recognition

LEC

When I open a website instead of a Project/solution in VS2019 community, I can't get the PHP editor to highlight and recognize code in php short tags<?. I don't want recommendations to use the full tag. I just want to know how to get it to recognize the short tag when I go to open a website directly. I can get it to work if I use a project. I am familiar with the .phpproj files. But placing:
<LanguageFeatures>ShortOpenTags</LanguageFeatures>

in any of the files in directories "ConsoleProject","FromExistingCode","FromRemote" or "WebProject" does not seem to fix it. The documentation says short tags are disabled for 7.0 and above by default, so is there a way to change the default behavior? It appears that because when you open a website in VS directly it is not opening a project, it does not look at any .phpproj files for setting.

JakubMisek

LEC Thank you for the question - you're right about all the other options.

File/Open/Web Site is a legacy feature from older Visual Studios; we do support it but we didn't think about short-open-tags at that time.

I'll add an option to Tools/Options/Text Editor/PHP, and keep you informed in this thread.

Thank you

JakubMisek

Please try the latest pre-release at https://www.devsense.com/en/download - there is an option in Tools / Options / Text Editor / PHP / Advanced - Document - Short Open Tags.

LEC

That works great! Thanks! And it is better to have it default to disabled because its a better practice to use the Long Open tag. But for code already written it can be tedious to have to change it all over a document that uses the short open tag. This a perfect.

JakubMisek

LEC thank you for checking it, and for the confirmation!

Please let us know if there would be anything else we can help with/improve.