Actually, you don't even have to concatenate them at all. Just treat <? as a string and that is it:
eg: <? echo '<? echo "hello world"; ?>'; ?> will output you: -- <? echo "hello world"; ?> -- without any parse errors. -- Maxim Maletsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Cam Dunstan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote... : > Ernest, your solution is quite correct, I write lots of scripts that "write > scripts" and it works fine. just concatenate little strings together > "<"."?"."php" and "?".">" pretty much as you suggested to Philipp. > > If you have a really sick and twisted mind you can create functions that do > this in combination with $$ variable variables for some very interesting > effects but after a while your friends will start crossing over to the other > side of the road when they see you coming. If these functions write the > scripts to disk for later execution you are entering the realms of self > modifying code, or software that "learns". PHP has to be THE perfect > language to experiment in this area with, surely. > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ernest E Vogelsinger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Philipp Bolliger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, November 08, 2002 11:25 PM > Subject: [PHP-WIN] Re: [PHP] How to echo the end marker '?>' > > > > At 12:15 08.11.2002, Philipp Bolliger spoke out and said: > > --------------------[snip]-------------------- > > >subject's allready my question ! I want to echo something like : "<form > > >action = \",?php echo $PHP_SELF ?> \" >" so that the action becomes <? > > >echo $PHP_SELF ?> !! But I can't figure out how to escape ?> so that the > > > interpreter doesn't take it as the end of the script ! Any idea ? > > --------------------[snip]-------------------- > > > > Try > > > > echo '<form action="', '<', '?', 'php echo $PHP_SELF', '?', '>', '">'; > > > > This should work (untested) > > > > > > -- > > >O Ernest E. Vogelsinger > > (\) ICQ #13394035 > > ^ http://www.vogelsinger.at/ > > > > > -- > PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > -- PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
