Posted by Darko on 05/28/07 16:35

On May 28, 5:44 pm, Michael <MichaelDMcDonn...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> On May 28, 8:37 am, "Jon Slaughter" <Jon_Slaugh...@Hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > "Michael" <MichaelDMcDonn...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>
> >news:1180365240.818621.26220@x35g2000prf.googlegroups.com...
>
> > > I'm new to PHP.
>
> > > Evidently my ISP's server does not recognize <?php ... ?>, but it does
> > > recognize <script language="php"> ... </script>, which would imply
> > > that <?php ... ?> is not portable.
>
> > > If in fact <?php ... ?> is not portable, why are so many PHP scripts
> > > using it?
>
> > if you trying that and it doesn't work then chances are there is no php
> > parser on the server or your doing somethign wrong. Make sure your ISP
> > supports php first... or since you can use the html tag maybe the parser is
> > not setup right or something else...
>
> > also you have to name the ext php to use have the parser parse it..
>
> > if you do
>
> > test.html,
>
> > <?php echo "hello"; ?>
>
> > then that is not php code but html text...
>
> > so you have to put it as test.php.
>
> =============================
> Thanks to all of you for your help. I'll check and make sure that the
> test I ran used proper syntax. I believe the server that I'm connected
> to is Windows based, but I assume that that should make no difference.

No, that shouldn't make any difference, fortunately Microsoft doesn't
make PHP nor Apache. <?php #code# ?> is definitely something ANY php
parser should understand. It takes guts and wits to reconfigure a web
server in such way it doesn't recognise this syntax :)

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