| Re: A curious thing...about tags. [message #182220 is a reply to message #182219] |
Sun, 21 July 2013 22:21   |
Norman Peelman
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On 07/21/2013 03:35 PM, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> On 21/07/13 19:31, Richard Damon wrote:
>> 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:
>>>>
>>>> > 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."<?";
>>>
>>> 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)?
> I managed to get it to work, as I stated earlier..
>
> This was the final code which works, hopefully not by some versional quirk
>
> $run="?>".$run;
> $run= $run."<?";
>
>
>
If that works, then so should your original example... as well as:
$run="?> $something <?";
Can you post an example of what wasn't working with output? And where
the output is going? Cannot duplicate here.
norman@amd64x2:~$ php -version
PHP 5.3.2-1ubuntu4.19 with Suhosin-Patch (cli) (built: Mar 11 2013
15:23:48)
Copyright (c) 1997-2009 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.3.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2010 Zend Technologies
norman@amd64x2:~$ php -a
Interactive shell
php > $something="my text";
php > $run="?> $something <?";
php > echo $run;
?> my text <?
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Norman
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