Explain the difference between php and php-template in their comments

[alexeyinkin]

Both php and php-template only have the link to https://www.php.net in their header comments. How does one choose one over another?

• The discussion was here: Discuss: How we handle the PHP templating language #2330

And it is unclear how it ended.

I believe that those two languages should have a short comments in headers like

Choose this for any PHP code, with the opening tag or not.

or

Choose this for PHP code with a required opening tag.

(If I got the difference right.)

[joshgoebel]

The last option is what we ended up with:

• PHP templates are detected as php-template
• Raw php code (snippets) are detected as php

So print("blah") might be php while <?php print("blah") ?> would be a php-template. I think an additional comment to explain in those files would be reasonable.