WAP and <? tag

[Drizzt]

Hi all.

I'm a somehow rusty on PHP, so maybe this is a dumb question...
I'm playing a bit with WAP developing, and found a simple problem right at
the beginning.
All the WAP pages that the editor (WAPTor) generate begin with
<?xml version="1.0"?>

That, <? is also the PHP tag for the beginning of the PHP scripting...
I've solved with this:
<?
echo("<?xml version=\"1.0\" ?>\n");
echo("<!-- created by WAPtor (http://www.wapdrive.net/) -->");
echo("<!DOCTYPE wml PUBLIC \"-//WAPFORUM//DTD WML 1.1//EN\"
\"http://www.wapforum.or g/DTD/wml_1.1.xml\">\ n\n");
?>



But I'd like to know if there is a bettere way to do this...


Thx in advance.

[Ian.H]

Re: WAP and &lt;? tag

On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 22:02:53 +0000, Drizzt wrote:
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> Hi all.
>
> I'm a somehow rusty on PHP, so maybe this is a dumb question... I'm
> playing a bit with WAP developing, and found a simple problem right at
> the beginning.
> All the WAP pages that the editor (WAPTor) generate begin with <?xml
> version="1.0"?>
>
> That, <? is also the PHP tag for the beginning of the PHP scripting...
> I've solved with this:
> <?
> echo("<?xml version=\"1.0\" ?>\n");
> echo("<!-- created by WAPtor (http://www.wapdrive.net/) -->");
> echo("<!DOCTYPE wml PUBLIC \"-//WAPFORUM//DTD WML 1.1//EN\"
> \"http://www.wapforum.or g/DTD/wml_1.1.xml\">\ n\n"); ?>[/color]
[color=blue]
> But I'd like to know if there is a bettere way to do this...
>
>
> Thx in advance.[/color]


I did much searching on this a year or so ago. I think your solution
appears to be similar to the one I used back then too, although I
specified a header also:


<?php
header('Content-type: text/vnd.wap.wml');

echo <<<WAP
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE wml PUBLIC "-//WAPFORUM//DTD WML 1.1//EN"
"http://www.wapforum.or g/DTD/wml_1.1.xml">

WAP;
?>
<wml>
[...]
</wml>


Personally I prefer the Heredoc[1] method for multiple echo lines like
this.. but the results are the same =)

I don't know of any other way. I tried reconfiguring apache and add .wml
as a PHP handled file but this caused all sorts of other issues (I forget
the exact problems now).

Note however.. I also use the full opening '<?php' tag rather than the
short tag. I strongly suggest working in this manner too as it will
prevent some issues with XML and PHP tags.



Regards,

Ian

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London, UK

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[Ian.H]

Re: WAP and &lt;? tag

On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 22:50:50 +0000, Ian.H wrote:


[ snip ]

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> Personally I prefer the Heredoc[1] method for multiple echo lines like
> this.. but the results are the same =)[/color]


[ snip ]


Oops..

[1]: <<<TEXT is known as Heredoc in Perl (but Perl uses 2 << chars).. I
don't know if the reference differs for PHP.. I've never checked to find
out if the name is the same for this method.



Regards,

Ian

--
Ian.H
digiServ Network
London, UK

http://digiserv.net/

[Andy Hassall]

Re: WAP and &lt;? tag

On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 22:55:12 GMT, "Ian.H" <ian@WINDOZEdig iserv.net> wrote:
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>On Mon, 29 Mar 2004 22:50:50 +0000, Ian.H wrote:
>
>[1]: <<<TEXT is known as Heredoc in Perl (but Perl uses 2 << chars).. I
>don't know if the reference differs for PHP.. I've never checked to find
>out if the name is the same for this method.[/color]

http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.types.string.php#language.types.string.syntax.heredoc

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[Garp]

Re: WAP and &lt;? tag

"Drizzt" <drizzt.du@libe ro.it> wrote in message
news:h21ac.1192 63$z23.5094915@ news3.tin.it...[color=blue]
> Hi all.
>
> I'm a somehow rusty on PHP, so maybe this is a dumb question...
> I'm playing a bit with WAP developing, and found a simple problem right at
> the beginning.
> All the WAP pages that the editor (WAPTor) generate begin with
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
>
> That, <? is also the PHP tag for the beginning of the PHP scripting...
> I've solved with this:
> <?
> echo("<?xml version=\"1.0\" ?>\n");
> echo("<!-- created by WAPtor (http://www.wapdrive.net/) -->");
> echo("<!DOCTYPE wml PUBLIC \"-//WAPFORUM//DTD WML 1.1//EN\"
> \"http://www.wapforum.or g/DTD/wml_1.1.xml\">\ n\n");
> ?>
>
>
>
> But I'd like to know if there is a bettere way to do this...
>
>
> Thx in advance.[/color]

In addition to the other responses, I'd like to propose the ever-popular
Smarty template library, which would enable you to concentrate on the data
acquisition and worry less about tactics for getting around syntax.

Garp