On Wed, July 12, 2006 5:18 pm, tedd wrote: > At 2:40 PM -0700 7/12/06, Ray Hauge wrote: >>On Wednesday 12 July 2006 14:31, Richard Lynch wrote: >> > Using short tags (<? instead of <?php) is also a Bad Idea. >>> >>> Finally, echo "$previous"; is silly, as the quote marks serve no >>> purpose at all. echo $previous; would be better. >>> >>> -- >>> Like Music? >>> http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm >> >>A bit off topic, but I hadn't heard about short tags being a bad >> idea. What >>reasons make short tags worse than the regular tags. Just curious. Well, if your code has to run on a server where short tags is off... The other reason I say that they are "bad" is that they're getting eliminated in PHP6, according to the roadmap, I *think*... You'll have to confirm that for yourself, mind you. -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php