RE: [WSG] PHP Question...

2003-12-08 Thread Beau Lebens
?php is more reliable - you can configure a server to ignore "?" as an opening PHP tag (short_tags i think the directive is from memory). for compatibilities sake, you should always use the ?php tag in your coding, but if short tags are enabled, then technically the 2 are the same (both

RE: [WSG] PHP Question...

2003-12-08 Thread Simon Jessey
Another thing to consider is XML. Some people (myself included) create XML files on a regular basis. The PHP short tag ? can easily be confused by XML parsers, because it is the same as the beginning of a Processing Instruction. For example:?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ? The

Re: [WSG] Generated Content

2003-12-08 Thread Moose
I'm wondering if anyone out there can point me to an article or crib-sheet discussing the current support for generated content in CSS2. Such as are discussed here http://www.richinstyle.com/guides/generated2.html. I would like to use counters to add numbering to headings in web-versions of

Re: [WSG] PHP Question...

2003-12-08 Thread Adam Carmichael
Beau Lebens wrote: ?php is more reliable - you can configure a server to ignore ? as an opening PHP tag (short_tags i think the directive is from memory). for compatibilities sake, you should always use the ?php tag in your coding, but if short tags are enabled, then technically the 2 are the