Frontpage 2003 & PHP Issue

[dredge]

Hi Guys, I upgraded from Frontpage XP to Frontpage 2003 and am having a
problem with FP2003 changing my PHP code. Here is an example:

Original Code:
value="<?if($post_data=="1"){echo $first_name;}?>"

After opening it in FP2003:
value="&lt;?if($post_data==&quot;1&quot{echo $first_name;}?&gt;"?>"

I found that using <SCRIPT language="PHP">...</SCRIPT> instead of
<?...?> resolves this issue, but I need to use the ASP tags because my
exisitng codebase of 20k+ lines of PHP code use them, and they allow me
to code a lot faster (it's faster to type <? and ?>).

Any help on this issue would be deeply appreciated.

Thanks,

-Karl

 

[dredge]

P.S.

I have made all of the reccomended changes found here:
http://office.microsoft.com/search/...010231131033&QueryID=yvF9Pczoj0&respos=1&rt=6

Also, I installed the PHP Rocket add-in in an attempt to resolve this
issue, but to no avail.

-Karl

 

[Stefan B Rusynko]

Set your PHP to use ASP-like <% and %> tags as delimiters




| P.S.
|
| I have made all of the reccomended changes found here:
| http://office.microsoft.com/search/...010231131033&QueryID=yvF9Pczoj0&respos=1&rt=6
|
| Also, I installed the PHP Rocket add-in in an attempt to resolve this
| issue, but to no avail.
|
| -Karl
|

 

[dredge]

Thank you for your reply. The webserver we use has already been setup
to utilize ASP tags. It also accepts the "<SCRIPT
language="PHP">...</SCRIPT>" tag, but again I would prefer to use the
ASP tags if at all possible. This issue really confuses me because I
thought FP doesn't ever change code that is between ASP tags.

 

[Ronx]

From your original post:

I found that using <SCRIPT language="PHP">...</SCRIPT> instead of
<?...?> resolves this issue, but I need to use the ASP tags because my
existing codebase of 20k+ lines of PHP code use them, and they allow
me
to code a lot faster (it's faster to type <? and ?>).

<? ... ?> are not ASP tags - they are PHP specific. ASP tags are <%
.... %>
The PHP.ini file on the server needs to be configured to use ASP
tags - and FP does not change code using these, unless the code is
badly formed.
Badly formed code includes:
Table opened in HTML and closed in code.
Table opened in code and closed in HTML
and similar.

 

[dredge]

Ron, thanks for the reply- I think you found the issue. I changed this
code:

value="<?if($post_data=="1"){echo $first_name;}?>"

to this (note the quotes around the number one):

value="<?if($post_data=='1'){echo $first_name;}?>"

After the change, FP2003 doesn't change my code. FP2002 (XP) did not
care if double-quotes were used, but it looks like FP2003 does.
Unfortunately, all of my existing php code uses double-quotes.