Hi!
On 01 August 2012 at 09:36 Lester Caine <les...@lsces.co.uk> wrote: > Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > >>> Only with short tags on ... 5.4 has detached it from that, but 5.3 still > >>> >>switches it off by default, and convincing ISP to switch short tags on > >>> >>again is > >>> >>a lost cause:( Fixing it in PHP5.3 was rejected:( > >> > > >> >Errm... So you are complaining we're not going back in time now and make > >> >different decision about PHP 5.3 that was made years ago? Or what is > >> >your point exactly? > > Note also that we have been*extremely* conservative with the > > short_open_tag setting because we know it can break old code. To this > > day even in PHP 5.4 it is still on by default as it was in PHP 5.3. > > Since PHP 5.1.0 which was released in 2005 we have suggested that people > > disable it in their php.ini because of the obvious problems it causes > > with respect to other things that use the XML PI tag, but we have in no > > way forced their hands. If you simply upgraded PHP and didn't change > > your php.ini, nothing related to short_open_tags would have broken in > > the past 15 years. > > Then can you explain why <?= has stopped working on shared hosting on a number > of ISP's who have recently updated from 5.2 to 5.3 ... Which? "A number of ISP's"? How many are we talking about? Also, is it our problem if ISPs changed their configuration during an upgrade? How do we know it's our fault? Debian or RedHat or some other common base distribution may have changed the configuration - you realise that they are most likely using a slightly modified version from a distribution, and use the distribution defaults, or a modified version of that, yes? Probably not the official PHP version directly built from source, I'd figure. > The default on PHP5.3 is to switch 'short_open_tag' off? which also disables > <?= I'm fairly sure Rasmus said it wasn't. And, being Rasmus, I think I can trust him on that ;) (I don't really use short tags, so I don't know myself) > which is a bit of a problem when the sites are using templating which relies > on > it :( The horse has bolted now, but it would have been nice when this > particular > problem was highlighted that PHP5.3 was backported with the fix that HAS been > applied to 5.4 ... > This is an example of a simple problem, not of 'buggy code' :( > > -- > Lester Caine - G8HFL > ----------------------------- > Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact > L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk > EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ > Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk > Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk > > > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > -- Andrew Faulds http://ajf.me/ -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
