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RegExp to fix php tags

I made a website using php. In some places I put these php tags <?php ?> in other places just those <? ?>.

After doing a server migration the latter tags do not work because of php version differences. The new server understands only these tags <?php ?>.

Is there any easy regular expression that you can provide me to replace all <? some php code here ?> to <?php some php code here ?>.

Solution

  • You have two possibilities here:

    1. Enable the short tags with short_open_tag=On in php.ini
    2. You could use a negative lookahead: <\?(?!php), these needs to be replaced with <?php, see a demo on regex101.com.