Title: PHP terminating tags ?>
Last modified: April 16, 2019

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# PHP terminating tags ?>

 *  Resolved [rrcatto](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rrcatto/)
 * (@rrcatto)
 * [7 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-terminating-tags/)
 * Your plugin contains two php files, each of which include terminatings tags
 * ?>
 * and a line of whitespace after the terminating tag.
 * This can lead to a “headers already sent” error message.
 * It is best practice to omit the terminating tag to ensure that no html is output.
 * Your files will both output whitespace which can cause undesirable side effects.
   In addition to the header issue, it can mess up the html output with extraneous
   whitespace.

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 *  Plugin Author [Maulik Vora](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zluck/)
 * (@zluck)
 * [7 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-terminating-tags/#post-11433883)
 * I agree [@rrcatto](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rrcatto/), Thanks for 
   reporting this and helping in improving this plugin.
 * Its fixed!

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## Tags

 * [headers](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/headers/)
 * [php tags](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/php-tags/)

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 * Last reply from: [Maulik Vora](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zluck/)
 * Last activity: [7 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/php-terminating-tags/#post-11433883)
 * Status: resolved