Re: PHP doesn't work (solved -- sorta)

[Adam H. Pendleton]

RedHat has "fixed" this "problem" by changing the setting of "short_open_tag" back to "On" in the Phoebe beta release, which means that 8.1 will include this fix. For current users, however, this change will have to be done manually, or at least until another PHP package is released (which may not be _too_ far away considering the release of 4.3.0).

ahp

On Tuesday, January 7, 2003, at 11:24 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, Adam H. Pendleton wrote:

Well, I've figured out why PHP doesn't work, and in doing so tied in my
other post about php.ini. RedHat, for reasons I don't quite
understand, have decided to change the value of "short_open_tag" to
"Off". It is on by default on 7.3, but the value is changed to "Off"
in the php update. It doesn't take effect, however (read my php.ini
post), because the setting is saved into /etc/php.ini.rpmnew instead of
/etc/php.ini. On 8.0, though, the setting is "Off" in the base
install. Changing the page to:

<?php

phpinfo();

?>

from:

<?

phpinfo();

?>

causes the page to execute properly. Having this set to "Off" will of
course break a ton of PHP software because most PHP developers use the
short form of the tag opening. This leads to my question:

Why did RedHat feel the need to change this setting? Was it done
deliberately or was it an oversight? Was it indeed done by RedHat, or
is this a change propagated from the default php.ini released with PHP?
I know there are RedHat developers on this list, and I would like to
hear their answers to these questions, since this has caused me, and
many others, quite a few headaches.

This setting is purposily changed from the default by Red Hat in a patch
file called "php-4.2.1-php.ini-dist.patch" The SPEC ChangeLog does not
explain why the change was made. The best explaination I could find is
in RH Bugzilla entry #72700 where the package builder, Phil Copeland,
explains "strictly speaking your scripts should open/close with <?php ...
?>" I went searching through Bugzilla to see if anyone reported short_tag
support causing problems and couldn't find any such report. If your not
satisified with the existing explaination then you may want to re-open the
#72700 call asking for more details.



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