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Bug #7131 Undocumented change in behaviour of alternate syntax
Submitted: 2000-10-11 05:37 UTC Modified: 2000-10-11 07:07 UTC
From: diego at otello dot alma dot unibo dot it Assigned:
Status: Closed Package: *General Issues
PHP Version: 4.0.3RC2 OS: Linux (RH7.0)
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2000-10-11 05:37 UTC] diego at otello dot alma dot unibo dot it 
This used to work with PHP3 and stopped when I upgraded to PHP4. Seems that require() doesen't support opening a block in the included file an closing it in the block that contains the require() itself. Maybe a short example could explain it better...

In test.inc :
<?php
 if(1):
?>
ABC

In test.php3 :
><?php
 require("test.inc");
 echo "Test OK";
endif;
?>

With php3 it worked ("ABC Test OK"), with php4 it stops with parse error on last line of test.inc (sure it doesen't find the expected endif...)

BYtE,
 Diego.

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 [2000-10-11 07:07 UTC] hholzgra@php.net 
the scope of a control structure is limited to single files
in php 4 due to compiling reasons

you may include or require files within if statements
or loops but all of the control structures elements
( if-else-endif , for-endfor ) have to be in a single
compile unit (file or eval() string)

this is documented somehow in 
  http://www.php.net/version4/incompatibilities.php,
topic #2
 
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