Proper Opening of PHP

[The Little Guy]

As I was working with ASP, I noticed that you can use the first code to work with asp, so I was curious if that would work with php and it does, so... Is the first snippet the "More proper" way? If I were to use that, well, in ASP, you place that in the head of the Web Page, to give labels and buttons name/values. So... instead of having nested PHP in my HTML, can I place it in the head using the script tag like below to make buttons, labels, text fields, etc?

 

<script language="PHP">
echo "hello my name is ryan";
</script>

 

<?php
echo "hello my name is ryan";
?>

[revraz]

<?php is the preferred method.

[PFMaBiSmAd]

I believe (don't quote me on this) I have seen information for php6, that the first method and the asp_tags ASP-like <% %> tag method will be eliminated.