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December 5th, 2006, 11:24 AM

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PHP code has that annoying little space in front of it

When you post something in PHP code, it has this annoying little space on this first line:

PHP Code:


		
			
echo "hi";

echo "look, it gone whack";

And for some reason it bothers me.

As ax very aptly put it, this is a

Code:

very         priority
       low

problem, but if it can be fixed, that would be sweet.

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December 6th, 2006, 12:20 PM

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You know it has bothered me too, then I realized that I had a pair and didn't really care. Suck up weenie.

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PHP Code:


		
			
<?php echo "Doesnt have that space here"; ?>

PHP Code:


		
			
echo "But it does here";

Wierd...

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December 6th, 2006, 12:48 PM

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looking at the source of the page, it looks like the <?php is assumed to be the first thing in the code, and therefore gets its own span tag with a space followed by it...thing is when there is no <?php it still gets its own span with a space, leaving just a space

anyways seems like the highlight tags doesn't suffer from it, so just use that, its better

php Code:

Original - php Code
<?php echo 'highlight tags'; ?>

<?php
echo 'highlight tags';
?>

php Code:

Original - php Code
echo 'highlight tags';

echo 'highlight tags';

PHP Code:


		
			
<?php

echo 'php tags';

?>

PHP Code:


		
			
echo 'php tags';

maybe you can just replace php tags with highlight=php tags, it looks better, doesn't have the bugs listed above, has links to the functions, and IMHO is just better

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Axweildr agrees: we are at a point of concurrence ... I was going to write that

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December 6th, 2006, 01:44 PM

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Testing PHP Code Tags

PHP Code:


		
			
<?php

echo "test";

?>

PHP Code:


		
			
echo "test";

PHP Code:


		
			
echo "one";

echo "two";

December 6th, 2006, 02:28 PM

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PHP Spacing issue is fixed now.

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December 6th, 2006, 02:46 PM

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December 6th, 2006, 11:27 PM

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while your at it might want to fix this part too

PHP Code:


		
			
 $DateTime = 'wee';

echo $DateTime;

looks like it still happens if the first thing is a variable

December 8th, 2006, 10:34 PM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by thaminda

PHP Spacing issue is fixed now.

Very kickass. Thanks.

@highlight: Yeah, but to me the PHP tags work really well for PHP because it's just more... well, I'm more used to it.

@chad: Then I'd have five, and that wouldn't be cool.

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