| Re: ommiting closeing tag in PHP [Re: this is my code i am not getting images throuh php script] [message #176601 is a reply to message #176600] |
Tue, 10 January 2012 21:31   |
The Natural Philosoph
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Richard wrote:
> The Natural Philosopher <tnp(at)invalid(dot)invalid> writes:
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>> 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?!?!?
It's not a 'closing tag' : its a switch to tell php to drop back into
'spit out the source file raw' mode.
If you don't ever want it to do that...it seems a valid reasonable and
apparently valid-in-terms-of-the-language-as-specified way to do it.
If the spec says its intrinsic to the language, a feature, it can't be
a hack can it?
How many people add semicolons to the last line of a CSS style block
definition?
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