[thelist] Re: php & xhtml, escaping
Tim Luoma
luomat at peak.org
Wed Jul 17 21:40:01 CDT 2002
Tom Dell'Aringa wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm just getting better acquainted with PHP and running through the
> docs. I first noted that the manual says you can use ASP style tags
> "<% %>" which I liked since my editor is set up for them
> automatically (no big deal to change it though.) Then I read:
>
> "The first way, <?php. . .?>, is the preferred method, as it allows
> the use of PHP in XML-conformant code such as XHTML."
>
> Does this mean you must do <?php evertime or it won't validate - the
> manual doesn't seem to go into detail about it.
You can indicate inline PHP in 3 ways:
<% %>
<? ?>
<?php ?>
<?php ?> is the XML way because it describes the type of code going in
there much like the beginning of the XHTML doctype:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
I prefer <?php because it reminds me what syntax I'm using ;-)
TjL, who now is constantly making the mistake of defining variables in
/bin/sh scripts like this:
$foo = bar
TjL
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