RE: [PHP] Is echo tag reasonably portable?

At 01:25 PM 11/15/2005, Jim Moseby wrote:

Jim Moseby wrote:

Robin Vickery wrote:

On 11/15/05, Roman Ivanov <gamblergluck@yahoo.com> wrote:

Can '<?=' be used for templates, or is it "a bad thing"?

The manual's reasonably explicit on the subject: "Note: Using short tags should be avoided when developing applications or libraries that are meant for redistribution, or deployment on PHP servers which are not under your control, because short tags may not be supported on the target server. For portable, redistributable code, be sure not to use short tags."

I've seen this note. But I haven't seen a single server where short tags were disabled.

Nor have I. However, if I use long tags, my script will

*always* work. If

I use short tags there is a *possibility* that it won't.

So, when writing

code that is required to be portable, there is no reason to

ever use short

tags.

so how many people actually _need_ to write portable code? I don't know, but those who do should not use short tags. And those who hope to should not get into the habit of using short tags. ok so many you are starting a project which will become a runaway success but until it starts receiving alot of attention use of short-open-tags is probably not your biggest issue either. It will be when you have to sort through 1,000,000 lines of code in 400 files to change '<?' to '<?PHP'. Better to save the grief and do it right to start with, no? lets assume that everyone should be writing completely portable apps, why does this ini setting exist? what is the point of offering a setting that can be set to a bad(tm) value by design? I don't know. A very good question for the PHP architects. :o) JM

Re 1,000,000 lines .... awk, sed, UltraEdit? Miles