A PHP block inside an HTML string breaks the string processing

[Matt]

When putting a PHP block inside a string in HTML, the mode loses track of the string at the start of PHP mode, and a quote after the ?> will start a new string.

For example, in:

<input type="hidden" name="act" value="act_<?php print $act; ?>" />

act_ is considered one string, and then /> is a new string. Instead, the " after ?> should close the string with act_

This affects syntax highlighting and indenting.

[lborgman (lennart-borgman)]

Hi Matt,

Thanks for reporting this. It is a known problem that I can not fix in a good way now, see:

  http://ourcomments.org/Emacs/nXhtml/doc/nxhtml-changes.html#php-attribute-values

In the future I hope to fix this, but it requires some rather heavy changes to Emacs. I have some ideas for this and is discussing it with some Emacs developers.

[Chris Hecker (checker-lp)]

Hi, I tried to register the workaround alt php tags mode in both the nxhtml-mode-hook and the nxhtml-mumamo-mode-hook, but both fail. It activates the alt mode, but it appears to happen before the <? ?> parsing, so the blocks are totally messed up. Is there any way to make this registerable as a hook like so:

(add-hook 'nxhtml-mumamo-mode-hook '(lambda () (mumamo-alt-php-tags-mode t)))

Thanks for the awesome nxhtml-mode, it's amazing!

Chris

[Chris Hecker (checker-lp)]

> It activates the alt mode, but it appears to happen before the <? ?> parsing, so the blocks are totally messed up.

Hmm, no, it looks like it's just messed up until you save. mumamo-alt-php-tags-mode marks the buffer as modified, and then when you save it seems to work. Is there any way to avoid having to save the buffer?

Thanks,
Chris