Re: Who vote for this? (was Re: [PHP-DEV] Discourage use

Rasmus Lerdorf wrote:

By suddenly changing a basic characteristic of PHP that has been around since the beginning of time in order to solve a problem almost nobody has, we violate both principles, and on top of that we add a security risk in that now people are likely to expose code that they didn't mean to expose and before they figure it out they may have leaked database passwords and other sensitive data.

I agree. There will be many careless admin/users.

What is needed here is decent documentation, not ramming a configuration change down peoples' throats with absolutely no regard to the consequences and ramifications of such a change.

I agree this, too. I'm not for immediate change. I would like to make clear the result of discussion. short_tag option should be kept. Most of us agree, it seems. Should we keep double standard _forever_ and have <?php echo '<?xml version="1.0" ?>' ?> as standard syntax for XML files preprocessed by PHP? I can't think of better way. If there are, Please let me know. I'll document it. -- Yasuo Ohgaki

On Sun, 28 Apr 2002, Yasuo Ohgaki wrote:

I really don't understand why we should keep short_tag=on. This implies we have following _standard_ and _portable_ syntax for all XML documents preprocessed by PHP. <?php echo '<?xml version="1.0" ?>' ?> Who vote for this _standard_ and _portable_ syntax? Don't forget to write why this syntax is good, look great, etc. -- Yasuo Ohgaki -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php