PHP does not recoganize short open tags (<?) tags

[maro_learner]

I have an application which uses short open tags, I changed the "short_open_tag = On" in my Php.ini in my WAMP set up.But this does not help it to identify the short tags ( I restarted the server after the changes)

 

Is there somewhere else I need to change it so that the short tags are identified ?

 

Thanks for your time.

 

 

 

[PFMaBiSmAd]

You need to make sure that php.ini that you are changing is the one that php is using.

 

As you have found out, short open tags don't always work and you won't always be on a server where you can turn them on. Your time would be better spent by changing the code to not use short open tags.

 

Even php.net recommends not to use short open tags to avoid this problem -

; NOTE: 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.

[toivo]

If you are using WAMP2, the php.ini file is in c:\wamp\bin\apache\apache2.2.8\bin.

 

Regards,

toivo