Re: Bug #2321: problem with <? ... ?> in a string if line commented out

This behavior is intentional. Zeev On 18 Sep 1999 dnaber@mini.gt.owl.de wrote: > From: dnaber@mini.gt.owl.de > Operating system: Linux 2.2.12 > PHP version: 3.0.11 > PHP Bug Type: Parser error > Bug description: problem with &lt;? ... ?&gt; in a string if line commented out > > This works fine: > > <? > $var = '<? ?>'; > print $var; > ?> > test > > As expected, it puts out "test". But this fails: > > <? > #$var = '<? ?>'; > #print $var; > ?> > test > > It puts out "'; #print $var; ?> test". The same happens > if you comment out with //. One can work around the problem with > > #$var = '<'.'? ?'.'>'; > > I'll attach two possibly relevant parts of my php3.ini (it's a Suse 6.2 installation > and I think I didn't change anything). > > Regards > Daniel Naber > > ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; > ; Language Options ; > ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; > > engine = On ; enable PHP 3.0 parser > short_open_tag = On ; allow the <? tag. otherwise, only <?php and <script> tags > are recognized. > asp_tags = Off ; allow ASP-style <% %> tags > precision = 14 ; number of significant digits displayed in floating point numbers > y2k_compliance = Off ; whether to be year 2000 compliant (will cause problems with non y2k > compliant browsers) > ; Safe Mode > safe_mode = Off > safe_mode_exec_dir = > ; Colors for Syntax Highlighting mode. Anything that's acceptable in <font > color=???> would work. > highlight.string = #DD0000 > highlight.comment = #FF8000 > highlight.keyword = #007700 > highlight.bg = #FFFFFF > highlight.default = #0000BB > highlight.html = #000000 > > > ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; > ; Data Handling ; > ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; > magic_quotes_gpc = On ; magic quotes for incoming GET/POST/Cookie data > magic_quotes_runtime= Off ; magic quotes for runtime-generated data, e.g. data from SQL, from > exec(), etc. > magic_quotes_sybase = Off ; Use Sybase-style magic quotes (escape ' with '' > instead of \') > track_vars = On ; enable $HTTP_GET_VARS[], $HTTP_POST_VARS[] and $HTTP_COOKIE_VARS[] arrays > ; automatically add files before or after any PHP 3.0 document > auto_prepend_file = > auto_append_file = > > > > > > -- > PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-dev-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-dev-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > -- ----------------------------------------------------- Zeev Suraski <zeev@zend.com> http://www.zend.com/ For a PGP public key, finger bourbon@netvision.net.il