Mine, too, although I usually do my escaping/encoding in the template itself, so it becomes: <?= h($name) ?> Which isn't that terrible. The PHP developers

Mine, too, although I usually do my escaping/encoding in the template itself, so it becomes: <?= h($name) ?> Which isn't that terrible. The PHP developers don't make this easy though, as "short tags" are officially recommended to be disabled, so to write portable PHP you'd have to do <?php= h($name) ?> Every time, which adds visual noise that gets worse the more tags you write.