At 8:22 PM -0500 2/19/07, Paul Houle wrote:
Here's a fun fact about <?php that I figured out recently: I
always used to write include files like
<?php
...define some functions...
...define some classes...
...set a few global variables ...
?>[EOF]
where [EOF] is the end of the file.
The trouble was that from time to time, people using certain
editors would cause spaces and carriage returns to appear after the
?>. This had the obnoxious effect of opening the output stream and
making it possible to send http headers, set cookies and do other
important things.
One day I discovered that I didn't need the "?>"... I could just write
<?php
... PHP code...
[EOF]
And it works just fine. It scared the people at the office, but
they were glad to be rid of a nagging problem.
That has always bothered me. I like symmetrical stuff. I start stuff,
I finish stuff.
<start></start>
{
}
()
But, the idea that one purposely leaves something hanging, is
tedd
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