Use of short tags

Hi,

Several of the PHP files within Concerto use short tags instead of complete tags, ie <? instead of <?php. This is rather non-portable, and causes major breakage on SUSE systems at the very least. It can be worked around by changing short_open_tag = On, but this is not the default shipping setting for SuSE and possibly others, and is also not recommended.

To quote from php.ini on SuSE, Ubuntu and Debian distros - "Using short tags should be avoided when developing applications or libraries that are meant for redistribution, or deployment on PHP servers which are not under your control, because short tags may not be supported on the target server. For portable, redistributable code, be sure not to use short tags."

I've had a quick look, and there's quite a few files that at least have it as the opening line. There are many more with it embedded in the file somewhere

root@flat:/var/www/concerto# find . -iname "*.php" -exec grep -i '<?$' {} \; | wc -l
58
root@flat:/var/www/concerto#

I'm sure there's a way to mass replace it all with sed/grep/find/etc!

Regards

Kyle