| Re: A curious thing...about tags. [message #182218 is a reply to message #182217] |
Sun, 21 July 2013 18:31   |
Richard Damon
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On 7/21/13 1:14 PM, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> On 20/07/13 19:33, Denis McMahon wrote:
>> On Sat, 20 Jul 2013 17:09:37 +0200, Thomas Mlynarczyk wrote:
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>>> The Natural Philosopher schrieb:
>>>
>>>> suppose I want my string to be "?> something <?"
>>>> How on earth is it possible to STOP PHP interpreting that as some
>>>> blasted 'escape to outputting text'
>>> Sorry, but I still don't quite see the problem. PHP will happily accept
>>> the above string as what it is: a simple string. It will not try to
>>> interpret the <? or ?> contained within that string (why should it?).
>> Thomas, the problem is with the ability of the poster you are applying to
>> to comprehend and understand string handling in php, and what his browser
>> views as an element.
>>
>> Most of us understood the need to use < and why in html if we wanted a
>> less than symbol within a few months at most of starting to use html.
>> Some others will never understand it.
> The problem is of course that you have totally failed to understand the
> problem I was in fact having.
>
> It has NOTHING to do with the browser.
> The string output was never going anywhere NEAR a browser.
>
> The problem was how to CONSTRUCT a string using PHP, to put in a file or
> a database, that contain PHP escape sequences.
>
> Without. PHP interpreting them AS escape sequences.
>
> That is given the string $something, how to make
> $new="?>".$something."<?";
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> without PHP instantly thinking you wanted to print $something on stdout.
>
>
>> Also, as you have noticed, the failure modes that some people post are
>> not the failures that occur in the circumstances they describe. When you
>> see this, you can usually assume that the person concerned does not, to
>> use a common term, know their arse from their elbow.
>>
> Or in this case,.. the person his not bothered to understand the actual
> problem being described.
>
>
The issue is that the PHP interpreter is defined to be smart enough that
the ?> closing tag should NOT be recognized inside a quoted string the
way you have stated. It is almost certainly some other problem.
Can you post an EXACT COMPLETE example showing the problem and the
output you get (view source on the page)?
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