From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 25 23:53:43 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84876106566B for ; Fri, 25 Mar 2011 23:53:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from kline@thought.org) Received: from thought.org (plato.thought.org [209.180.213.209]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5543E8FC0C for ; Fri, 25 Mar 2011 23:53:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: by thought.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 2E7B4E807EA; Fri, 25 Mar 2011 16:53:41 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 16:53:41 -0700 From: Gary Kline To: Fr?d?ric Perrin Message-ID: <20110325235341.GA26039@thought.org> References: <20110323164504.GA25317@thought.org> <20110324230049.GB31958@thought.org> <89898D0E-B4A9-41E9-B829-DF7CA8D3FF06@d3photography.com> <20110325053630.GA6722@thought.org> <20110325164445.GA16901@thought.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: X-Organization: Thought Unlimited. Public service Unix since 1986. X-Of_Interest: With 24++ years of service to the Unix community. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: why does this simple counter fail? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2011 23:53:43 -0000 On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 05:53:11PM +0100, Fr?d?ric Perrin wrote: > Gary Kline writes: > > On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 06:36:34AM -0500, Ryan Coleman wrote: > >> Look for short tags. Turn that on. > >> > >> > > > I didn't know that I had the option of using short flags or not. Where > > do I set that? (I'm sure there are more places where i have " > "?>" rather than ""; be nice to _not_ have this cause me > > grief again....) > > In /usr/local/etc/php.ini, look for short_open_tag under the « Language > Options » heading. > > -- > Frédéric Perrin -- http://tar-jx.bz > Found it; thanks. It's been god-knows how many yrs ago that i used the short tags option .... it may have been the Last time my counter broke. Lost in the myst of times. Anyway, i've decided to leave the short form off as is advised in the ini file. I'M trying to decide whether to tatoo this on my forehead or just make a note in my ~/.notes file for the next time this breaks. if/when. Meanwhile, the best thingt to do would simply write a script to turn