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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] '<?=' with PHP5.3.10
From: lester@lsces.co.uk (Lester Caine)

Ferenc Kovacs wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 5, 2012 at 2:50 PM, Lester Caine <lester@lsces.co.uk
> <mailto:lester@lsces.co.uk>> wrote:
>
>     OK what changed in the automatic updates from PHP5.3.9 to 5.3.10 that stops
>     '<?=' working when it was working previously?
>     I do not recall the state of short_open_tag changing but was that
>     'defaulted' to off when previously it was on?  I had thought that '<?=' was
>     discussed and had been left alone, but now I'm told that is only on PHP5.4.0
>
>     Something broke sites without any warning and it would have been nice to be
>     told by that ISP that they were updating PHP anyway :(
>
> In 5.4.0 the <?= will be always available regarding from the value of short_open_tag
> but that has nothing to do with 5.3, or your problem.
> as far as I can see, we didn't changed neither the php.ini-*files, nor the
> hard-coded default value for short_open_tag:
>
> http://svn.php.net/viewvc/php/php-src/branches/PHP_5_3/main/main.c?view=annotate
> http://svn.php.net/viewvc/php/php-src/branches/PHP_5_3/configure.in?view=annotate
> http://svn.php.net/viewvc/php/php-src/branches/PHP_5_3/win32/build/config.w32.h.in?view=annotate
>
> http://svn.php.net/viewvc/php/php-src/branches/PHP_5_3/php.ini-production?view=annotate#l226
>
> http://svn.php.net/viewvc/php/php-src/branches/PHP_5_3/php.ini-development?view=annotate#l226
>
> if your ini files are the same as with the previous install, then my guess is
> that you (or your distributor) started compiling php with --disable-short-tags,
> and you didn't explicitly enable the short_open_tag from your php.ini
> that is, or we have a bug. :/

I'm still waiting on an answer back from the ISP as to what they ACTUALLY did. 
In the meantime I've been around all the affected sites and changed things so 
they work. It's just annoying that I've had to spend most of the morning 
'fire-fighting' something that should never have happened :(

The sites will be moving onto machines under my control anyway, but that will 
take a while. I can't work with suppliers who take hours to even respond to a 
problem and don't provide update information.

-- 
Lester Caine - G8HFL
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