No. It uses a semicolon to delimit statements within blocks, but (afaik) placing each statement inside its own <?php ... ?> tag would be valid. There's also t

No. It uses a semicolon to delimit statements within blocks, but (afaik) placing each statement inside its own <?php ... ?> tag would be valid. There's also the alternative syntax[1], which is mostly used for templating these days, which looks like <?php if ($foo): ?> ... html ... <?php endif; ?> and is probably the only place other than a ternary operator that might conceivably end a line with a colon. [1] http://php.net/manual/en/control-structures.alternative-syntax.php http://php.net/manual/en/control-structures.alternative-synt...