PHP 5.1.4 Install on Intel Mac (Bug?)

August 16, 2006 – 4:47 pm

I noticed after installing PHP 5.1.4 on my brand new MacBook Pro that my scripts weren’t executing. After about 3 hours of messing around, I realized that short_open_tag was turned off in php.ini.

Location: /usr/local/php5/lib/php.ini

Should be: short_open_tag = On

Not sure if this is a common issue, or if the PHP defaults have been changed. I installed the package distributed by Marc Liyanage, found at his homepage.

Edit: According to the php web site, this should be on by default. 

short_open_tag “1″ PHP_INI_PERDIR PHP_INI_ALL in PHP <= 4.0.0.
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  1. 2 Responses to “PHP 5.1.4 Install on Intel Mac (Bug?)”

  2. The default behaviour was changed due to problems working with XML :-)

    By dotdot on Sep 16, 2006

  3. This was exactly the problem on my machine. thanks for the fix.

    -boice

    By boice tomlin on Apr 7, 2007

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