Apache recognizes <?php but not <?

Hi,

I just installed Apache 2.0 with PHP 5 and MySQL. If I use the <? tag in my php scripts everything seems to work. However, when I just use the <? tag it seems to not be recognized.

For example, I have the following test file:

<?php echo "Hello"; ?>
<? echo "Hello"; ?>

The html source that is generated is:

Hello
<? echo "Hello"; ?>

Any ideas?

You should edit your php.ini file in this way:



and then don't forget to restart your Apache server. Enjoy

Thanks. I knew it was something simple like that.

also you may need to know this about webhosts, most will have the short tags disabled. so, you may start coding the long way, instead of using the short tags.