PHP Alternative management structures, any flaws?

Question

I worked with code PHPthat generates HTML without any templates, and it's pretty spaghetti and hard to read the way they structured it. One of the ways I have dramatically improved after the stream, which I noticed, is to use : endifinstead of blocks { }in some cases to increase readability. (See http://php.net/manual/en/control-structures.alternative-syntax.php )

• Is it portable?
• This standard?
• Is this slower in any significant way (I understand that it takes more characters)

Hooray!

Answer 1

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<?php foreach($array as $value): ?>
    <div>
    <?php if($value == "foo"): ?>
        <p><?php echo $value; ?></p>
    <?php endif; ?>
    </div>
<?php endforeach; ?>

<?php foreach($array as $value) { ?>
    <div>
    <?php if($value == "foo") { ?>
        <p><?php echo $value; ?></p>
    <?php } ?>
    </div>
<?php } ?>

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Answer 2

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Answer 3

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Answer 4

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Personally, I, being trained and using c-style languages, my whole programming career (so far), I prefer curly braces with a simple comment after the curly brace ends, which tells you that it ends.

Answer 5

The only drawback that I see is that in an editor, such as sublime text, there are options such as "Switch to a consistent bracket" and "Expand selection in brackets" that will not work with alternative syntax