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bgwest

I've just installed Apache, PHP, and PostgreSQL locally. Everything works fine, except that the PHP defines called by the <?=item?> syntax don't show up. The web page served by the script shows blanks, and the source reads <li><b>Submission:</b> <?=_SUBMISSION_DEADLINE_SHORT?>.

I included a script that says
<?php
define (_SUBMISSION_DEADLINE_SHORT, "Oct. 7<sup>th</sup> '05");
?>

I've searched for explicit definitions of this syntax, and while I find some casual references there is no definition or key instructions regarding why (in Apache 2.2 and PHP 5.1.1) the substitution is not made. phpinfo() tells me that short tags are disabled, but this seems to me to be unrelated.

Rodney_H_

According to the manual, http://us3.php.net/echo, the short tag syntax you are trying to use only works when short tags is ENABLED....

bgwest

Thanks, Rodney. I searched over 100 pages for the string ?=; however, the page containing ech0() examples seems not to have been one of them. My mistake appears to have been to use php.ini-recommended rather than php.ini-dist.

halojoy

Rodney H. wrote:
According to the manual, http://us3.php.net/echo, the short tag syntax you are trying to use only works when short tags is ENABLED....

That is why a good php progammer
avoids short php tags ( <?=$var ?> )

Use the full. It will work on any server with PHP.

<?php

 echo $var;

?>

// and

my name is <?php echo $name; ?>

and you will probably save you and others
some endless rewriting of their php pages
( I have had to do this with scripts I downloaded - and it makes you want to scream some nasty words to all bad php writers )

:glare:

Rodney_H_

Hello, Halojoy!

Long time no-see...

-RH

halojoy

Rodney H. wrote:
Hello, Halojoy!
Long time no-see...
-RH

Yeah
I have seen you done some good things helping out here.
I do come here to read once in a while.
🙂

thorpe

also, your call to [man]define/man is incorrect. it should be...

define ("_SUBMISSION_DEADLINE_SHORT", "Oct. 7<sup>th</sup> '05");

dalecosp

"Short tags are pretty,
Short tags are cute,
They're never nasty or mean ...

I'd make the nerds
always use the short tag,
if ever one day I were Queen!!!!!"

Of course, there is that problem with that XML stuff.... :eek: