[SOLVED] Code snippets are not executing on Windows

[spydaddy]

Hi,

 

I am new to the forum, and new to php. We had a developer create some code that - after developer was gone - turned out to be in php. We are running on Windows, under IIS.

 

The code has a bug, where snippets of the code that are surrounded with <?=somevariable?>  do not execute. <?php some code here ?> executes just fine.

 

Can you guys help? I am sure it is something very simple.

 

Thanks

[PFMaBiSmAd]

; 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.

 

No programmer should be using the lazy-way short open tags, especially if he is being paid to write the code. You should go through the code and change them or you can turn on the short_open_tag setting.

[WolfRage]

Damn got beat to the punch.....

Either you have to enable short tags. Not reccomended. Or simply convert all "<?" to "<?php" which is standard syntax for opening tags.

[spydaddy]

Thanks, guys. that worked. Although it is quite a bit of rework to get it working everywhere.

 

And I don't like that I have to use "<?php print" everywhere where he used "<?="....the latter is more intuitive, and less prone to forgotten extra spaces...