|  | Posted by Paul Lautman on 06/18/76 12:00 
Alan Silver wrote:> Hello,
 >
 > I hope someone will be able to help me on this. I am not very
 > experienced with PHP, doing ASP.NET normally. I have a requirement to
 > use a third-party set of PHP pages on a site, and it's not running
 > properly. I don't think the problem is with the pages though, I think
 > PHP might not be running correctly.
 >
 > The server is Windows 2003 Server with IIS and all the latest patches,
 > service packs, etc. I have PHP 5.2.3 running, and if I create a small
 > PHP page with just
 >
 > <?php phpinfo(); ?>
 >
 > in it, I get the expected information. This implies that PHP is
 > running OK. I have tried a couple of other basic PHP scripts, and
 > they seem to run OK as well. I went through the examples in the
 > "simple tutorial" at www.php.net and got exactly the results
 > predicted.
 > However, if I try to run the pages I'm supposed to be installing, PHP
 > doesn't run. The code in the file is sent to the browser as plain
 > text. If I view the source of the page, I can see some (although not
 > all) of the PHP code in there. If I rename the PHP to have a .html
 > extension, it looks exactly the same. This sounds like the page is
 > not being executed.
 > For example, there is code like this in the page...
 >
 > <input type="text" name="db_user" value="<?=$CFG_db_user?>" />
 >
 > The browser shows a text box with <?=$CFG_db_user?> inside. Obviously
 > the code isn't being executed.
 >
 > Does anyone have a clue what is going on here? I realise it may be
 > hard without seeing the page, but it's not currently on a production
 > server.
 > If there's any more info I can supply, please let me know.
 >
 > TIA
 
 He he, I could maybe use your help as I am having to do a few asp/MSSQL
 pages and my experience is php/MySQL.
 
 Anyway, your problem is that <? is what is called a "short open tag" and in
 the more recent releases of php their use is disabled by default.
 
 So instead of <?=$CFG_db_user?> use <?php echo $CFG_db_user;?>
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