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Bug #26995 short_open_tag = Off has no effect
Submitted: 2004-01-21 12:38 UTC Modified: 2004-03-23 18:19 UTC
Votes:6
Avg. Score:3.7 ± 0.9
Reproduced:3 of 5 (60.0%)
Same Version:1 (33.3%)
Same OS:1 (33.3%)
From: trobinson at gksystems dot com Assigned:
Status: No Feedback Package: Scripting Engine problem
PHP Version: 5CVS-2004-01-27 OS: windows
Private report: No CVE-ID: None
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 [2004-01-21 12:38 UTC] trobinson at gksystems dot com 
Description:
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php.ini contains the line:
  short_open_tag = Off

phpinfo() reports that it is off.

Yet <? short tags are still being processed.

This causes problems for <?xml, forcing the ugly workaround.

Reproduce code:
---------------
The next line should never say "short_open_tag: 0"
<br>
<?   
echo 'short_open_tag: ', (int) ini_get('short_open_tag');
?>


Expected result:
----------------
===EITHER===

The next line should never say "short_open_tag: 0" 
short_open_tag: 1

(if short_open_tag = On)

===OR===

The next line should never say "short_open_tag: 0" 


(in this case, the <? echo ...?> is visible in Reveal Source, but the browser correctly hides it.)


Actual result:
--------------
The next line should never say "short_open_tag: 0" 
short_open_tag: 0

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 [2004-01-21 14:52 UTC] sniper@php.net 
Please check from phpinfo() output that you're loading the correct php.ini file.
 [2004-01-21 14:58 UTC] trobinson at gksystems dot com 
phpinfo() reports the correct php.ini file.
However, regardless of php.ini setting, the following line should NEVER outout 0. It should either outout 1 or it should not execute at all.

<?= (int) ini_get('short_open_tag') ?>
 [2004-01-21 15:01 UTC] iliaa@php.net 
what does var_dump(ini_get('short_open_tag')) say?
 [2004-01-21 15:07 UTC] trobinson at gksystems dot com 
var_dump(ini_get('short_open_tag'))

with short_open_tag = Off:

  string(0) ""

with short_open_tag = On:

  string(1) "1"
 [2004-01-23 02:03 UTC] sniper@php.net 
Does it work when you run the script on command line?
 [2004-01-26 22:10 UTC] trobinson at gksystems dot com 
c:\php> cli\php
<? var_dump(ini_get('short_open_tag')) ?>
^Z
string(0) ""

So same problem with CLI version.
I tried with 4.3.1 on the same machine, and it works correctly.
 [2004-01-27 15:57 UTC] sniper@php.net 
Please try using this CVS snapshot:

  http://snaps.php.net/php5-latest.tar.gz
 
For Windows:
 
  http://snaps.php.net/win32/php5-win32-latest.zip

I can't reproduce this..
 [2004-01-27 16:13 UTC] trobinson at gksystems dot com 
I have duplicated the problem using CVS version PHP 5.0.0RC1-dev (cli) (built: Jan 21 2004 04:14:35)
and using php.ini-recommended, with just the short_open_tag line changed.
 [2004-03-15 10:09 UTC] sniper@php.net 
Please try using this CVS snapshot:

  http://snaps.php.net/php5-latest.tar.gz
 
For Windows:
 
  http://snaps.php.net/win32/php5-win32-latest.zip

There were some problems fixed recently which might have fixed this problem too. (although I'm still unable to reproduce this..)
 
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