At 23:24 08.11.2002, David McArthur said:
[snip]
PHP 4.2.2 (linux) doesn't seem to mind if I leave off the closing ? tag at
the end of a file. Is the ? assumed at EOF?
I have PHP that outputs binary and along the way I include() a lot of php
scripts. I'm constantly having problems when I leave a little whitespace at
the end of some script after the ? which screws up the output binary.
First time this happened it took me hours to figure out the cause.
What does everyone think about just leaving off the ? as a solution to
this? It works for me now, but would any PHP developer care to
prognosticate on the liklihood this might change in future?
[snip]
The least I can say that it's bad style... it's not documented, and
therefore any tag should be closed.
Most ascii editors can be configured to discard trailing whitespaces; and
PHP will even ignore a newline character following immediately a closing tag:
--[html]-
xmpOutside?php
echo 'Inside';
?
Outside/xmp
--[html]-
will correctly produce this:
OutsideInsideOutside
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