Per the manual: http://php.net/manual/en/language.basic-syntax.phptags.php
I'm trying to learn some various MVC's and frameworks (namely Backbone.js at the moment) and the pages the frameworks use are .html files and a code snippet would be listed as: <%- title %> (Source: https://github.com/tastejs/todomvc/blob/gh-pages/examples/backbone/index.html)
Does this mean the frameworks won't work if my server has PHP 7? I realize I could go ahead and just try it this individual time but I'm wondering...in general...does PHP 7 think the <% tags are ASP only and such not allow them?
The backbone should work without any problem with PHP, see example, because the code is wrapped is a script tag.
<script type="text/template" id="tpl-hello-backbone">
<%= message %>
</script>
In case that you still encounter problems try to use Mustache.js and display the text using {{}}
<script type="text/template" id="tpl-hello-backbone">
{{message }}
</script>