Syntax Problem

[timlondon]

I've just had to reinstall php due to a system upgrade and my previous install worked using <? to open when code was being embedded within html. This worked fine on all of my pages. Subsequent to the re-install however, I now need to use <?php instead. This is very frustrating since I will need to amend the coding of about 50 pages. Is there a way I can alter the configuration of php so that it accepts <?    ?????

 

I'm using 5.2.0

[Balmung-San]

In the php.ini you need to set short_open_tag to 1.

[.josh]

..and that's why you should use <?php instead of <? 

[Balmung-San]

..and that's why you should use <?php instead of <? 

 

Indeed.

 

Especially since you never know when you'll move to a host which doesn't allows short tags, and won't let you change your php.ini

[.josh]

I suggest you just suck it up and change them.  You can do a find and replace all, for each file.  Or hell, write a script that will open each file and do it for you (I also suggest making backups first). 

[Balmung-San]

preg_replace("<\?(?!php)","<?php",$line);

 

Loop through each line in each file, and have that in the middle of the loop ($line being the line from the file you're currently on).

 

That should work as a PHP script to do it for you.

 

Interesting...using PHP to fix PHP...

 

[EDIT]Added in negative lookahead to the regex, that way you don't replace <?php with <?phpphp.

[trq]

Hehe.. I wrote a solution to this yesturday using bash/sed.

 

for file in $(ls -R projectdir/*.php) ; do
  sed -i -e 's/<?$/<?php/g' $file
done

[timlondon]

Thanks guys.

 

I'll take your advice and change them all.