phpinfo problem

I have just installed PHP-5.2.3 on my Kubuntu Feisty box. I removed all
the debian php first and then compiled php with the options I needed.
Now everything seems to be working except phpinfo.php which consists of
one line.

<? phpinfo(); ?>


I get a blank screen.

If I delete the php.ini file it get the usual phpinfo output.

php -r "phpinfo();" works as does php -i and my php scripts run fine.
What would cause phpinfo.php to not work? It's set rw for the apache2
user so I think the permissions are right. Is there a phpinfo
enable/disable in the php.ini? Or in ./configure?

Thanks.
Rick Knight

You probably just have short_open_tags set to Off in your php.ini file.
If so, either turn it On, or change the file to be:

<?php phpinfo(); ?>

Chris

Rick Knight wrote:
> I have just installed PHP-5.2.3 on my Kubuntu Feisty box. I removed
> all the debian php first and then compiled php with the options I
> needed. Now everything seems to be working except phpinfo.php which
> consists of one line.
>
> <? phpinfo(); ?>
>
>
> I get a blank screen.
>
> If I delete the php.ini file it get the usual phpinfo output.
>
> php -r "phpinfo();" works as does php -i and my php scripts run fine.
> What would cause phpinfo.php to not work? It's set rw for the apache2
> user so I think the permissions are right. Is there a phpinfo
> enable/disable in the php.ini? Or in ./configure?
>
> Thanks.
> Rick Knight
>

Thanks Chris,

That was the problem. Is this new php5? I've used 3 prior php4 version
and didn't have this problem.

Thanks,
Rick

Chris wrote:
> You probably just have short_open_tags set to Off in your php.ini
> file. If so, either turn it On, or change the file to be:
>
> <?php phpinfo(); ?>
>
> Chris
>
> Rick Knight wrote:
>> I have just installed PHP-5.2.3 on my Kubuntu Feisty box. I removed
>> all the debian php first and then compiled php with the options I
>> needed. Now everything seems to be working except phpinfo.php which
>> consists of one line.
>>
>> <? phpinfo(); ?>
>>
>>
>> I get a blank screen.
>>
>> If I delete the php.ini file it get the usual phpinfo output.
>>
>> php -r "phpinfo();" works as does php -i and my php scripts run fine.
>> What would cause phpinfo.php to not work? It's set rw for the apache2
>> user so I think the permissions are right. Is there a phpinfo
>> enable/disable in the php.ini? Or in ./configure?
>>
>> Thanks.
>> Rick Knight
>>
>

Rick Knight wrote:
> Thanks Chris,
>
> That was the problem. Is this new php5? I've used 3 prior php4 version
> and didn't have this problem.

The default value for short_open_tags was flipped a while back. Might I
suggest you read the changelog next time you upgrade to a newer version
- it tells you important stuff like that.

-Stut

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> Chris wrote:
>> You probably just have short_open_tags set to Off in your php.ini
>> file. If so, either turn it On, or change the file to be:
>>
>> <?php phpinfo(); ?>
>>
>> Chris
>>
>> Rick Knight wrote:
>>> I have just installed PHP-5.2.3 on my Kubuntu Feisty box. I removed
>>> all the debian php first and then compiled php with the options I
>>> needed. Now everything seems to be working except phpinfo.php which
>>> consists of one line.
>>>
>>> <? phpinfo(); ?>
>>>
>>>
>>> I get a blank screen.
>>>
>>> If I delete the php.ini file it get the usual phpinfo output.
>>>
>>> php -r "phpinfo();" works as does php -i and my php scripts run fine.
>>> What would cause phpinfo.php to not work? It's set rw for the apache2
>>> user so I think the permissions are right. Is there a phpinfo
>>> enable/disable in the php.ini? Or in ./configure?
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>> Rick Knight
>>>
>>
>

> The default value for short_open_tags was flipped a while back. Might I
> suggest you read the changelog next time you upgrade to a newer version
> - it tells you important stuff like that.

And, FWIW, never use short tags. Always use <?php

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Stut wrote:
> Rick Knight wrote:
>> Thanks Chris,
>>
>> That was the problem. Is this new php5? I've used 3 prior php4 version
>> and didn't have this problem.
>
> The default value for short_open_tags was flipped a while back. Might I
> suggest you read the changelog next time you upgrade to a newer version
> - it tells you important stuff like that.

The problem people will have is having to go through ALL the PHP5 changes when
converting from PHP4. That particular one adds a lot of characters to files on
some PHP4 upgrades, where there are lots of <? ?> - so switching it is the
quicker fix.

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>> The default value for short_open_tags was flipped a while back. Might
>> I suggest you read the changelog next time you upgrade to a newer
>> version - it tells you important stuff like that.
>
> The problem people will have is having to go through ALL the PHP5
> changes when converting from PHP4.

Why is that a problem? I would have thought that that is automatic.
Surely you're not suggesting that people are upgrading from PHP4 to PHP5
without exhaustive testing?

> That particular one adds a lot of
> characters to files on some PHP4 upgrades, where there are lots of <? ?>
> - so switching it is the quicker fix.
^ on ?

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Richard Heyes wrote:
>>> The default value for short_open_tags was flipped a while back.
>>> Might I suggest you read the changelog next time you upgrade to a
>>> newer version - it tells you important stuff like that.
>>
>> The problem people will have is having to go through ALL the PHP5
>> changes when converting from PHP4.
>
> Why is that a problem? I would have thought that that is automatic.
> Surely you're not suggesting that people are upgrading from PHP4 to
> PHP5 without exhaustive testing?
>
> > That particular one adds a lot of
>> characters to files on some PHP4 upgrades, where there are lots of <?
>> ?> - so switching it is the quicker fix.
> ^ on ?
>
Most of my tags are the long type, justa very, very few that are not,
but I have turned short tag support on.

Also, this was not a planned upgrade. I run Slackware 9.0, PHP4 & MySQL4
on my server, Kubuntu on my workstations. Debian has dropped support for
MySQL 4. I needed to add mysql 4 to my workstation (to solve a server
problem) and found that the mysql4 binary was not compatible with the
debian packaged php5 so I had to remove that and install php5 from
source. Kind of a domino effect. I do much more reading and testing when
do a planned upgrade, I just didn't have the time this time.

Thanks,
Rick

On Mon, 2007-08-13 at 17:07 +0100, Lester Caine wrote:
> Stut wrote:
> > Rick Knight wrote:
> >> Thanks Chris,
> >>
> >> That was the problem. Is this new php5? I've used 3 prior php4 version
> >> and didn't have this problem.
> >
> > The default value for short_open_tags was flipped a while back. Might I
> > suggest you read the changelog next time you upgrade to a newer version
> > - it tells you important stuff like that.
>
> The problem people will have is having to go through ALL the PHP5 changes when
> converting from PHP4. That particular one adds a lot of characters to files on
> some PHP4 upgrades, where there are lots of <? ?> - so switching it is the
> quicker fix.

Sure it's quicker. But search and replace is pretty damn fast too. Not
to mention future proof.

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On Sun, August 12, 2007 10:32 pm, Rick Knight wrote:
> I have just installed PHP-5.2.3 on my Kubuntu Feisty box. I removed
> all
> the debian php first and then compiled php with the options I needed.
> Now everything seems to be working except phpinfo.php which consists
> of
> one line.
>
> <? phpinfo(); ?>
>
>
> I get a blank screen.
>
> If I delete the php.ini file it get the usual phpinfo output.
>
> php -r "phpinfo();" works as does php -i and my php scripts run fine.
> What would cause phpinfo.php to not work? It's set rw for the apache2
> user so I think the permissions are right. Is there a phpinfo
> enable/disable in the php.ini? Or in ./configure?

You probably have short_open_tags OFF and so you need <?php
phpinfo();?> instead of just <? ... ?>

You'd know for sure if you looked at "View Source" and saw <?
phpinfo();?> for the short-tag version, but the <?php version worked.

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