#21891 [WFx]: Closing PHP tag and Newlines Revisted

ID: 21891 Updated by: derick@php.net Reported By: hz11 at nyu dot edu Status: Wont fix Bug Type: Feature/Change Request Operating System: FreeBSD/Linux PHP Version: 4.3.0 New Comment: Making a setting in php.ini would make writing portable scripts harder, so that's a no-go too. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2004-03-10 11:48:37] zizka at seznam dot cz Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeyyy!!! Wake UP! It wouldn't break ANY script if it was optional in the php.ini file!!!! As I wrote to derick: Are the PHP developers getting too lazy to improve PHP a bit? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2004-03-10 10:56:45] hz11 at nyu dot edu How would it break existing scripts? Firstly, CLI scripts aren't that common yet, and especially those that rely on this type of behavior. Secondly, what if it was a config setting, available only when running as a CLI (akin to argv/argc). When working with scripts on the console for interactive programs, or using a CLI script to generate raw XML for instance, this type of newline mangle makes no sense and is cause for very hackish scripts. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2004-03-08 12:03:42] derick@php.net Can not be fixed, as it breaks existing scripts. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2004-03-08 11:29:38] hz11 at nyu dot edu I agree. Now that the CLI interface has matured it's in fairly widespread use. I use CLI continually and this "feature" is a royal pain. Perhaps when running in CLI mode this behavior could be automatically disabled... this would be a much appreciated change. Or, a special tag as suggested: <?+ <?- I would think putting something like this into PHP 5 wouldn't disrupt things. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2004-02-20 02:41:33] threedee32 at rogers dot com I think it would be useful to have the option to negate this feature, perhaps with a modified end tag (\?> or something?). That way it would still be backwards-compatible. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The remainder of the comments for this report are too long. To view the rest of the comments, please view the bug report online at http://bugs.php.net/21891 -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=21891&edit=1