plate
engine</em></a>, you&#8217;ll be using pure PHP in your
View files. To minimize the PHP code in these files, and to make it
easier to identify the code blocks it is recommended that you use PHPs
alternative syntax for control structures and short tag echo statements.
If you are not familiar with this syntax, it allows you to eliminate the
braces from your code, and eliminate &#8220;echo&#8221; statements.</p>
<div class="section" id="automatic-short-tag-support">
<h2>Automatic Short Tag Support<a clas