Re: PHP Enclosing Tags? Do You Close Your PHP Declarations?

Eric Butera wrote:

On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 10:10 AM, tedd <tedd.sperling@gmail.com> wrote:

My mother always told me to close the door. She wasn't a programmer, but it kept the chickens out. As a matter of habit, I always close all tags. However, I have yet to be bitten by the problem everyone speaks about (knock on wood). Cheers, tedd -- ------- http://sperling.com http://ancientstones.com http://earthstones.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php

Right, but the problem isn't us, its them. I don't have this problem myself (since I figured out why I was getting those lame headers sent errors years ago), but when we work in teams... well.. all bets are off. :(

personally I close and ensure no trailing space; however I have been trying to remove the ?> recently for files with nothing but php - purely to save others grief who may use the code, as I did come across this error again recently. specifically the error in my scenario was called by a DOS format php file with trailing lines on a linux box - so I'm guessing that /n is trimmed but that leaves the /r which is output on linux systems; hence the error. although, in a world of tags and markup there's something that really grates about opening with <?php and not closing it.!