RE: [PHP] is <?= good?

On Fri, 2010-06-11 at 10:40 -0700, Daevid Vincent wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Ashley Sheridan [mailto:ash@ashleysheridan.co.uk] > > > > ...as those tags only work when short_tags are turned on, which > > itself causes problems with outputting XML from PHP. > > Can you elaborate on this Ashley? > > I use short tags and I output XML all the time. In fact I'm knee deep in > building an API right now for Panasonic Avionics that is all XML based. We > have hundreds of airplanes hitting the API, sending XML and getting XML > back -- all via LAMP. I'm also simultaneously doing some cURL JSON-RPC > bi-directional communication. > > This is the second XML API I've written for enterprise level service. I > have no problems at all. > > I call poppycock. This sounds like FUD to me. ;-) > > D. > > For <?= to work, the short_tags setting needs to be turned on I believe, which can cause issues when outputting the XML declaration line unless it's broken into two parts, which is messier than '<?php echo' IMHO. Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk