note 27487 added to language.basic-syntax

If you have code that uses the short open tags "<?" and "<?=", and you want to be able to turn off short_open_tags, you will need to change those tags to "<?php" and "<?php echo". For a small program this is trivial to do manually, but if you have thousands of lines of code, it makes sense to do this in a more automated way. A simple search and replace will only work if you don't have the string <? in any strings or comments. Quite likely you don't, but to solve this not-quite-a-problem, I've written a program that does the job and does it right. I challenge you all to come up with a PHP program that changes its behavior after being passed through this tag expander. (Programs that examine their own source don't count!) The thing can be found in the CVS repository for BASE at sourceforge: (you need to reassemble the URL - I had to cut it to be able to post it) http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/basedb/ basedb/contrib/ConvertShortTags/ -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.basic-syntax.php http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+27487 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+27487 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+27487