sholtzrevtek

All the other php configuration settings are detectable by code at runtime and can be dealt with if your code relies on them, but if your code uses short open tags <?, your code won't run and a lot of people either cannot or won't have the ability to turn short open tags on. I am not a php programmer so I simply assumed it was standard since 99.9% of my "php resource" scripts start with "<?" including some I paid for. I am now in the process of fixing every tag. Thanks guys for helping me with this problem.

I just installed php on my server and I could get the test.php page to work(yippey!) but the rest of my scripts would fail. I could not figure it out until I noticed the only difference between the test.php and the rest was the start of the php script. The non working scripts would start with "<?" and the test.php(working) uses "<?php". So, I added the "php" to the scripts and they worked! Is this normal? Most of my downloaded scripts use "<?" so obviously, it's not a problem for most people. If this is not normal, how could I fix it to accept the standard "<?" specs: Apache/1.3.33 (Darwin) PHP/5.2.4