Re: To ?> or not to ?>

On Apr 3, 2012, at 2:29 PM, Tedd Sperling wrote: > Hi gang: > > Let me start a religious war -- should one end their scripts with "?>" or not? > > After years of never having a problem with ending any of my scripts with "?>", I > found that several students in my class had scripts that did not produce the desired result even > after they were given the scripts via highlight_file(") to cut and paste. > > As it turned out, several students copy/pasted the script with an addition whitespace after the > ending "?>" and as such the scripts did not run as expected. You see, the scripts > created image but apparently the image delivery method objected to the additional whitespace. > > Does anyone have more examples of where scripts will fail IF they end with "?> " > (note the additional space)? > > Cheers, > > tedd I believe this can also be problematic if script A ends with "?> " (with additional space) and script B includes script A at the top, which will cause the headers to be sent.