[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #6791: Eliminate closing ?>'s from wp-config-sample.php

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#6791: Eliminate closing ?>'s from wp-config-sample.php
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 Reporter:  Otto42       |       Owner:  anonymous
     Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new      
 Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:  2.6      
Component:  General      |     Version:  2.5      
 Severity:  normal       |    Keywords:           
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 One of the most frequent problems mentioned on the forum is the "blank
 line" problem. This is where some file contains a blank line before or
 after the <?php .. ?> tags that causes either header issues (which will
 prevent login's due to cookies not working) or causes invalid feed issues
 (which is recently a major problem with FeedBurner, since they stopped
 accepting invalid feeds).

 It is described better here:
 http://feedvalidator.org/docs/error/WPBlankLine.html

 I recommend eliminating the use of the closing ?> tag in the wp-config.php
 file entirely. This will prevent text editors that introduce blank lines
 or excess spacing from breaking bits of the site by doing so. Since this
 file is pure PHP, the closing tag is optional anyway, and leaving it off
 ensures that the PHP interpreter does not produce output from it.

 Reference this as well:
 http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/coding-standard.php-file-
 formatting.html

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