short opening php tags considered harmful

I have just spent half an hour tracking down a bizarre failure in trying to get maxigallery running.

The cause was watermark/Thumbnail.class.php which begins with a ’<?’ tag rather than a ’<?php’ tag. The version of php I was running had short tags disabled and so the file was not recognised as php.

There is no good reason for using ’<?’ as opposed to ’<?php’ and some environments may choose to disable short tags as mine had.

So for use maximum portability use ’<?php’ always.

Ed

Yes, known issue, maybe you could of found the problem sooner by searching the forums through google, maybe not..

discussed before atleast in:

http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php/topic,3843.msg33998.html#msg33998
http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php/topic,4685.0.html

Quote from: doze at Oct 17, 2006, 07:27 PM

Yes, known issue, maybe you could of found the problem sooner by searching the forums through google, maybe not..

discussed before atleast in:

http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php/topic,3843.msg33998.html#msg33998
http://modxcms.com/forums/index.php/topic,4685.0.html

Yes known issue, and a trivial fix. No point in using google as I assumed my code was at fault. By the time I’d identified the problem, I’d identified the solution. I guess I couldn’t imagine such a easy thing thing to remedy being left in the code if it was known about, so I reported it.

Ed

There have not been a new release after the issue has been reported. It’s still work in progress, you know..

Quote from: doze at Oct 17, 2006, 08:01 PM

There have not been a new release after the issue has been reported. It’s still work in progress, you know..

There was no criticism implied or intended.

I am painfully aware that the whole of modx seems to be a work in progress. One day it may be wonderful, right now it can be somewhat painful

Ed