Re: here document

Obviously that should be taken into account - but you wouldn't go as far to say that short open tags might as well not be in Php at all, would you? I was simply pointing out that it doesn't necessarily have to be as complicated as <?PHP echo $variable ?> as those couple of earlier emails implied. jason > Yes, but <?= is nonportable. If you have total control over the server, > and know that you're never using PHP with XML, that's fine and you can > enable it using short_open_tag. Otherwise, it's not available. For > instance, I typically write code which could be executed on a client > server over which I have no control. It *must* not rely on this sort > of thing. > > That's why we always use the long <?php form in the manual; it's the > only one (apart from <script language="php">) which is always > guaranteed to work. > > Here docs also cannot be turned off.