Do I need a trailing semicolon here?
php
Solution
It is not required, but you should put it, as a good practice.
That way, the day you need to add another instruction after this one, it'll work fine.
And here is the manual's page that answers your question : Instruction separation (quoting, emphasis mine) :
As in C or Perl, PHP requires instructions to be terminated with a semicolon at the end of each statement. The closing tag of a block of PHP code automatically implies a semicolon; you do not need to have a semicolon terminating the last line of a PHP block. The closing tag for the block will include the immediately trailing newline if one is present.
Problem
Example: ``` <?php $formElement->display()?> ``` Is this fine, or should I provide a ; ? Well I guess that the PHP interpreter is clever enough to see that the line is finished and the expression done because of the ?> at the end. Right?