How to display "<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>"

[bobby9101]

I have a .php with <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> in it, not in inside of <?php ?>, but I get an error, because php is trying to read it as short tags, so how can I get it to be parsed as html?
I don't want to have to put it in <?php and then echo it

[PhatDV]

Only simple way I know of:

<?= '<' . '?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?' . '>' ?>

I know you specifically said you didn't want to echo it.

The only other way would be to store the tags in a seperate file from your script, read the file in and send it straight to output. That way the tags wouldn't be parsed.

[Yeldarb]

Turn off short tags?

[nico_swd]

Try setting this on top of your script.


ini_set('short_open_tag', '0');

[bobby9101]

i am echoing it for now, but am still open to suggestions

[bobby9101]

thanks nico, but i know I saw somewhere some way to escape it in html.

[wmtips]

You can use heredoc syntax for that, all data will be outputted "as is":


<?

echo <<<EOL
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

EOL;

echo 'code';

?>


But I would recommend using templates to separate your presentation layer and code. Simple solution also is a file inclusion:

header.xml contents:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>


<?

include 'header.xml';

echo 'code';

?>

[Smaaz]

$questionmark = "?";
echo "<".$questionmark."xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\"".$questionmark.">";

[nico_swd]

^^ If he wanted to echo it, he could do:


echo '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>';


But he doesn't want to echo it...