Shall I disable short tags?

varois83

Hi

I am just starting with PHP. I am reading a PHP 5 book and they say to
not use short tags and to actually disable them so I see an error
message if I don't form my tags correctly.
"short_open_tag" is currently set to "on", shall I set it to "off"?
I am not planning on using short tags.

Thanks a lot

Patrick

Sep 15 '07 #1

Anonymous

varois83 wrote:

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Hi

I am just starting with PHP. I am reading a PHP 5 book and they say to
not use short tags and to actually disable them so I see an error
message if I don't form my tags correctly.
"short_open_tag" is currently set to "on", shall I set it to "off"?
I am not planning on using short tags.

If you are not planing to use them you can disable them.

Bye!

Sep 15 '07 #2

Jensen Somers

On Sat, 15 Sep 2007 10:34:45 -0700, varois83 wrote:

Hi

I am just starting with PHP. I am reading a PHP 5 book and they say to
not use short tags and to actually disable them so I see an error
message if I don't form my tags correctly. "short_open_tag" is currently
set to "on", shall I set it to "off"? I am not planning on using short
tags.

Short tags can conflict with XML. It's always a good coding practice to
try to follow a standard, like the PEAR (pear.php.net) coding standards.

You can find some explanation on the following page:
http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2007/...-bad-php-code/

>
Thanks a lot

Patrick

- Jensen

Sep 15 '07 #3