| Re: ommiting closeing tag in PHP [Re: this is my code i am not getting images throuh php script] [message #176600 is a reply to message #176599] |
Tue, 10 January 2012 21:23   |
Richard
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The Natural Philosopher <tnp(at)invalid(dot)invalid> writes:
> M. Strobel wrote:
>> Am 10.01.2012 20:56, schrieb Jerry Stuckle:
>>> On 1/10/2012 11:16 AM, M. Strobel wrote:
>>>> Am 10.01.2012 13:54, schrieb Jerry Stuckle:
>>>> > On 1/10/2012 7:33 AM, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>>>> >> Luuk wrote:
>>>> >>> On 09-01-2012 23:08, M. Strobel wrote:
>>>> >>>> Am 09.01.2012 23:04, schrieb Luuk:
>>>> >>>>> On 09-01-2012 21:53, M. Strobel wrote:
>>>> >>>>>> Just omit the closing tag in php-only files, it's easier
>>>> >>>>>> than the
>>>> >>>>>> ob_ functions.
>>>> >>>>>>
>>>> >>>>>> /Str.
>>>> >>>>> If you re-checked, could you also provide us with a link to
>>>> >>>>> where you
>>>> >>>>> found that info?
>>>> >>>>>
>>>> >>>>>
>>>> >>>> search string was php closing tag
>>>> >>>>
>>>> >>>> http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.basic-syntax.instruction-separation.p hp
>>>> >>>>
>>>> >>>>
>>>> >>>>
>>>> >>>>
>>>> >>>> /Str.
>>>> >>> damn, they actually documented this UGLY feature ;)
>>>> >>>
>>>> >> Ugly, but damed usefull as my editor has a habit of adding an
>>>> >> extra
>>>> >> newline to the end of text files.
>>>> >>
>>>> > So get a good editor.
>>>> >
>>>> Now why should he "get a good editor" if he can omit the
>>>> closing tag?
>>>>
>>>> /Str.
>>> Because leaving off the close tag can cause problems later when
>>> someone else edits the site, assuming close tags are there.
>>>
>>> And leaving off a closing tag to get round an editor problem is
>>> just plain sloppy programming. But we already know certain
>>> people here don't care about that.
>>>
>> He has no editor problem, he can leave the closing tag off. Don't
>> send him off in a goose chase.
>>
>> I knew who would not be comfortable with this easy solution.
>>
> Only because
>
> (a) he didn't know it
> and
> (b) I said it was useful.
>
> NOTHING is easier than typing a ?> and then following it with a carriage
> return..
How horrible. Are people really suggesting this hard to spot (when you
dont know it) hack as a way to develop code? Leaving off closing
tags?!?!?
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