Hi,

Since the ISP changed somthing, the opening php tag no longer works.

<? echo("joe"); ?>

fails, where as this code:

<?php echo("joe"); ?>

works as expected.

Is there a setting in the phpinfo where i can see if this is disabled?
PHPinfo reports version 4.4.7.

This is the 1st time ive seen this error, and its a masive headache as
the web design co (the old company) wrote the entire site (1000's of
pages) using <? instead of <?php



Please please me!!


Joe

JoeB wrote:

> Since the ISP changed somthing, the opening php tag no longer works.
>
> <? echo("joe"); ?>
>
> fails, where as this code:
>
> <?php echo("joe"); ?>
>
> works as expected.
>
> Is there a setting in the phpinfo where i can see if this is disabled?
> PHPinfo reports version 4.4.7.

Yes, it's called "short_tags" and is disabled by default.

Having it enabled may cause some problems when using "<?xml" at the start of
your XHTML documents.

> This is the 1st time ive seen this error, and its a masive headache as
> the web design co (the old company) wrote the entire site (1000's of
> pages) using <? instead of <?php

Well, then just write a script to do the dirty work for you.

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JoeB wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Since the ISP changed somthing, the opening php tag no longer works.
>
> <? echo("joe"); ?>
>
> fails, where as this code:
>
> <?php echo("joe"); ?>
>
> works as expected.
>
> Is there a setting in the phpinfo where i can see if this is disabled?
> PHPinfo reports version 4.4.7.
>
> This is the 1st time ive seen this error, and its a masive headache as
> the web design co (the old company) wrote the entire site (1000's of
> pages) using <? instead of <?php
>
>
>
> Please please me!!
>
>
> Joe
>
>

In addition to what Iván said, plan on changing all of those short tags.
But while there are 100's of pages, I suspect there aren't 1000's of
source files - probably most of those pages are generated from a few
scripts.

It's a good thing you got rid of that old design company.

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On 16 Feb, 12:29, Iván Sánchez Ortega <ivansanchez-...@rroba-
escomposlinux.-.punto.-.org> wrote:
> JoeB wrote:
> > Since the ISP changed somthing, the opening php tag no longer works.
>
> > <? echo("joe"); ?>
>
> > fails, where as this code:
>
> > <?php echo("joe"); ?>
>
> > works as expected.
>
> > Is there a setting in the phpinfo where i can see if this is disabled?
> > PHPinfo reports version 4.4.7.
>
> Yes, it's called "short_tags" and is disabled by default.
>
> Having it enabled may cause some problems when using "<?xml" at the start of
> your XHTML documents.
>
> > This is the 1st time ive seen this error, and its a masive headache as
> > the web design co (the old company) wrote the entire site (1000's of
> > pages) using <? instead of <?php
>
> Well, then just write a script to do the dirty work for you.
>
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> ----------------------------------
> Iván Sánchez Ortega -ivansanchez-algarroba-escomposlinux-punto-org-
>
> MSN:i_eat_s_p_a_m_for_breakf...@hotmail.com
> Jabber:ivansanc...@jabber.org ; ivansanc...@kdetalk.net

Ive managed to find and replace most of them, the only ones i cannot
find is the ones where there is a new line directly after the tag:

<?
code...


Can someone come up with a way of finding these? Im using textpad,
and it supports regex find expressions.


Thanks for all the ..


Jeo

..oO(JoeB)

>Ive managed to find and replace most of them, the only ones i cannot
>find is the ones where there is a new line directly after the tag:
>
><?
>code...

Huh? Why can't your editor find a simple "<?" string, regardless of
whether there's a line break following or not? This shouldn't matter.

>Can someone come up with a way of finding these? Im using textpad,
>and it supports regex find expressions.

The regex could be something like

<\?\n

HTH
Micha

On 16 Feb, 16:13, Michael Fesser <neti...@gmx.de> wrote:
> .oO(JoeB)
>
> >Ive managed to find and replace most of them, the only ones i cannot
> >find is the ones where there is a new line directly after the tag:
>
> ><?
> >code...
>
> Huh? Why can't your editor find a simple "<?" string, regardless of
> whether there's a line break following or not? This shouldn't matter.
>
> >Can someone come up with a way of finding these? Im using textpad,
> >and it supports regex find expressions.
>
> The regex could be something like
>
> <\?\n
>
> HTH
> Micha

HI,

My editor can find "<?" but it finds thousands of them, most of which
are already "<?php"

The odd one is <? which i cannot find. The editor says it cannot run a
regex with \n in it!

J

JoeB wrote:

> My editor can find "<?" but it finds thousands of them, most of which
> are already "<?php"

Quick and dirty solution: just do that, and then replace "<?phpphp"
with "<?php" ;-)

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On Sat, 16 Feb 2008 05:34:00 -0800 (PST), JoeB <joe@kybert.com> wrote
in
<1d68b85b-6e7e-4c44-9a34-6ff0000aa8c3@p73g2000hsd.googlegroups.com>:

>On 16 Feb, 12:29, Iván Sánchez Ortega <ivansanchez-...@rroba-
>escomposlinux.-.punto.-.org> wrote:
>> JoeB wrote:
>> > Since the ISP changed somthing, the opening php tag no longer works.
>>
>> > <? echo("joe"); ?>
>>
>> > fails, where as this code:
>>
>> > <?php echo("joe"); ?>
>>
>> > works as expected.
>>
>> > Is there a setting in the phpinfo where i can see if this is disabled?
>> > PHPinfo reports version 4.4.7.
>>
>> Yes, it's called "short_tags" and is disabled by default.
>>
>> Having it enabled may cause some problems when using "<?xml" at the start of
>> your XHTML documents.
>>
>> > This is the 1st time ive seen this error, and its a masive headache as
>> > the web design co (the old company) wrote the entire site (1000's of
>> > pages) using <? instead of <?php
>>
>> Well, then just write a script to do the dirty work for you.
>
>Ive managed to find and replace most of them, the only ones i cannot
>find is the ones where there is a new line directly after the tag:
>
><?
>code...
>
>Can someone come up with a way of finding these? Im using textpad,
>and it supports regex find expressions.

TextPad doesn't support line endings in regular expressions (at least
not as of 4.7, the version that I have).

Why not just write a php script to handle it? You can run php from
the command-line too.
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