Re: <?=$var?> on OS X

On 27/11/06, Chris <dmagick@gmail.com> wrote:

Dotan Cohen wrote: On 27/11/06, Chris <dmagick@gmail.com> wrote:

Dotan Cohen wrote:

On 27/11/06, Brian Dunning <brian@briandunning.com> wrote:

I've got a new OS X box and for some reason <?=$var?> doesn't work like it does on all my other OS X boxes - anyone know a quick reason why not?

Exactly for that reason I don't recommend that you use it. Just use <?php print $var; ?> as it's portable and doesn't add that much typing- certainly not enough to justify the headache.

Good suggestion but it doesn't help if it's not his software that he needs to get running ;)

Actually, it does. He can global replace "<?=" with "<?php print" and be done with it. Then he could let the author of this non-portable software know that his 'shortcut' makes using the software difficult. Especially if it's not his own code (ie, code meant to be used by others) it should not depend upon short tags. Well he could also change it with a htaccess :P php_flag short_open_tags on

If it's for many files and he doesn't know perl (I don't either, but I know that perl can search/replace many files with ease), then he could override the php.ini settings in .htaccess. That, however, doesn't solve the root problem: the use of short tags. If he needs the fix for only one file, then open it in vi (or whatever gui app Macs use :) and have at it. Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com/what_is/html_email.html http://song-lirics.com/