php cpmpare

**chrroe** · 15-Apr-2009, 11:06 AM

Hi soup,

can you please post a screen-shot of the compare window?

Bye
Christoph

**soup** · 16-Apr-2009, 06:57 AM

here

**chrroe** · 16-Apr-2009, 09:09 AM

Hmmpf, this looks really strange

I downloaded the extra PHP-Rule from Scooter homepage and imported it.
Then I opened one PHP file in a file-viewer, copied the whole content to the right pane and modified some lines.
But here the differences were correctly detected and displayed.

Can you please try the following:
When you have the two files loaded, try to change the file-format from PHP-Source to <Standard> (using the popup-menu next to the filesize display).

Does this bring better results?

Bye
Christoph

**Zoë** · 16-Apr-2009, 09:27 AM

When something like this occurs it's generally because of an unterminated string literal or comment. It's actually usually because our grammar isn't complete and thinks you have an unterminated string, but the effect is the same.

The block of differences in your comparison starts a bit higher than what's visible in your screenshot. Look where that big block of red actually starts; the problem should be within one line or two lines of the start of it. If you can't figure out what's going on, please send us copies of the files and your Help->Support export. We'll keep anything you send us strictly confidential.

**soup** · 16-Apr-2009, 05:41 PM

it doesn't like two style definitions is the problem

-->
</style>
<style type="text/css">

see screen shot - its trying to be too clever :-)

bc2 doesn't try to be so just shows you the differences

**Michael Bulgrien** · 16-Apr-2009, 08:09 PM

If you intended to attach a different screen shot, I'm not sure that it worked. To me, this one looks exactly like the one you attached in your earlier post above...

**soup** · 17-Apr-2009, 03:05 AM

damm your right, sorry kept coming up against the 98kb limit

anyway try this one !

sorry

**chrroe** · 17-Apr-2009, 03:51 AM

Originally posted by chrroe

When you have the two files loaded, try to change the file-format from PHP-Source to <Standard> (using the popup-menu next to the filesize display).

Have you tried this for diagnostic purposes, yet?

**soup** · 17-Apr-2009, 06:17 AM

i presume you mean <default> :-)

ok tried that and it works - i actually just get shown the differences.
Now how can i set that a stadard for my files ?

**Aaron** · 17-Apr-2009, 02:37 PM

Looking at this screenshot, I think I see the problem.

On the right side, you close a comment with -->, but I do not see it closed on the left side; so if you started a comment on that side, then the whole section is considered a Comment.

You currently have Ignore Unimportant Differences on; If you turn that off, you should see the --> turn blue to show it is a difference, but you probably have Comments as Unimportant Differences in your Session Settings.

Is there a beginning Comment  ?

**Michael Bulgrien** · 18-Apr-2009, 02:18 AM

In other words, comments on one side and "important" code on the other equates to an important difference (even if the text is exactly the same).

**Aaron** · 22-Apr-2009, 04:40 PM

To rephrase: This is similar to how BC2 treated Strings.

"This is not equal" <-> This is not equal

Would be determined as a difference since on one side it is a String, and on the other side it is just text. In BC3, we have user defined grammar elements beyond Strings, so the situation can be encountered in more ways.

If we did not end at end of line and had

"
This is no equal <-> This is not equal

Note that the left side could still be a string, if we allowed multi-line strings to be defined, and hence, would still be not equal. This is probably what is happening with your comment.