Problem with XML tags and short_open_tag=On in php.ini

[bubbathehut]

Hi,

I have some applications that I use to make web pages that creates xml tags of the form

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<?xml version="1.0"?>

or similar.

Since

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short_open_tag=on

in /etc/php4/apache2/php.ini this tag is interpreted as PHP and an error message is shown when I access these pages.

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Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_STRING in /var/www/html/something/index_2.html on line 1

When I tried to set

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short_open_tag=Off

the web admin pages does not work since some of the included tags are only <? and not <?php. Thus I cannot use this setting and without it I cannot use my normal web pages. There are quite a few to migrate from my old Ubuntu server.

Is there any hope that the Bubba PHP code in the next release will only include full PHP tags?
Anyone has a tip on how I can solve this without having to edit all my existing pages? I know how to do this but it is a lot of pages to edit...
Is there anything I have missed?

/BubbatheHut

[tor]

Hi bubbathehut,

This is a problem we faced our selfs when writing parts of the upload functionality, look at /usr/share/web-admin/ulprogress.php.

The way we solve it is by outputting the header with a print or echo:

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header("content-Type: application/xml");
header("Cache-Control: no-cache, must-revalidate");
header("Expires: Mon, 26 Jul 1997 05:00:00 GMT");

print"<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\" ?>\n\n";

And to clean up our php is on the todo-list. Actually bubbalibre has done a lot of that in his "tiny hack" and we are looking in to a smart way to integrate at least parts of that.

/Tor

[bubbathehut]

Hi Tor and others,

If anyone else runs into this problem I thought I'd share my solution. At least it seems to work so far. On the PHP homepage I found a few lines which I modified a bit and ran in the web-admin directory (after backup of course).

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find -name '*.php' | xargs perl -pi -e 's/<\?= ?(.*?) ?\?>/<?php echo($1); ?>/g'
find -name '*.php' | xargs perl -pi -e 's/<\?/<?php /g'
find -name '*.php' | xargs perl -pi -e 's/<\?php php/<?php/g'

As I said, this seems to work with short_open_tag = Off but I'm not prepared to bet my life on it since I haven't read through all the code.
Without short open tags I can run all my other files with the xml tag without problem.

/BubbatheHut