Re: A curious thing...about tags. [message #182217 is a reply to message #182215] |
Sun, 21 July 2013 17:14 |
The Natural Philosoph
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On 20/07/13 19:33, Denis McMahon wrote:
> On Sat, 20 Jul 2013 17:09:37 +0200, Thomas Mlynarczyk wrote:
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>> The Natural Philosopher schrieb:
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>>> suppose I want my string to be "?> something <?"
>>> How on earth is it possible to STOP PHP interpreting that as some
>>> blasted 'escape to outputting text'
>> Sorry, but I still don't quite see the problem. PHP will happily accept
>> the above string as what it is: a simple string. It will not try to
>> interpret the <? or ?> contained within that string (why should it?).
> Thomas, the problem is with the ability of the poster you are applying to
> to comprehend and understand string handling in php, and what his browser
> views as an element.
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> Most of us understood the need to use < and why in html if we wanted a
> less than symbol within a few months at most of starting to use html.
> Some others will never understand it.
The problem is of course that you have totally failed to understand the
problem I was in fact having.
It has NOTHING to do with the browser.
The string output was never going anywhere NEAR a browser.
The problem was how to CONSTRUCT a string using PHP, to put in a file or
a database, that contain PHP escape sequences.
Without. PHP interpreting them AS escape sequences.
That is given the string $something, how to make
$new="?>".$something."<?";
without PHP instantly thinking you wanted to print $something on stdout.
> Also, as you have noticed, the failure modes that some people post are
> not the failures that occur in the circumstances they describe. When you
> see this, you can usually assume that the person concerned does not, to
> use a common term, know their arse from their elbow.
>
Or in this case,.. the person his not bothered to understand the actual
problem being described.
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