[PHP] short_open_tags = On

2003-03-04 Thread Keith Mastin
I was asked to change this in the php.ini file by a user to make it easier to use php on the server. Before doing so, I thought I better ask if there's any know security implications. I checked the wiki, and it showed that there are 31 instances of this, but didn't actually show any. :) The

Re: [PHP] short_open_tags = On

2003-03-04 Thread Rasmus Lerdorf
No, there are no security implications. In fact, it is arguably more secure to have short tags enabled as it is then less likely for someone to accidentally expose their PHP source code since everything between ? and ? will be parsed by PHP. However, keep in mind that XHTML and XML also uses