Short tags on EC2

[arbitrageur]

HI,

 

I'm using;

https://github.com/onassar/PHP-Pagination

 

It works on my local test server, but on EC2, short tags are apparently not enabled by default.

 

The pagination is printing php:

<div class="pagination"><ul class="<?php= implode(' ', $classes) ?>">
<li class="<?php= implode(' ', $classes) ?>"><a href="<?php= ($href) ?>"><?php= ($previous) ?></a></li>
<li class="number active"><a data-pagenumber="<?php= ($current) ?>" href="#"><?php= ($current) ?></a></li>
<li class="number"><a data-pagenumber="<?php= ($current + $x + 1) ?>" href="<?php= ($href) ?>"><?php= ($current + $x + 1) ?></a></li>
<li class="number"><a data-pagenumber="<?php= ($current + $x + 1) ?>" href="<?php= ($href) ?>"><?php= ($current + $x + 1) ?></a></li>
<li class="<?php= implode(' ', $classes) ?>"><a href="<?php= ($href) ?>"><?php= ($next) ?></a></li>

I tried replacing <? with <?php to no avail. Not sure if the fact that one dependency is named "render.inc.php" instead of just ".php" which is causing the issue. Any ideas why apache is doing this? I'd rather not edit the .ini. Thanks..

Edited November 3, 2014 by arbitrageur

[mac_gyver]

<?php= does not exist. <?= would become <?php echo (with a space between the echo and any following value)

 

this isn't an Apache problem. it's a php configuration problem and people using php's lazy-way short-cuts in code they publish for others to use that is not portable between php versions/configurations.

[requinix]

= is available in PHP 5.4+ regardless of settings. If it doesn't work then you're using 5.3 (or earlier) and you need to upgrade.