Posted by Shelly on 09/28/07 22:46

<kurt.krueckeberg@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>
>> Short tags are turned off by default now in up to date installs of
>> php. This is because the short opening tag <? is used to start an xml
>> file, so the short tag is now deprecated in php in favour of the full
>> <?php which you should ALWAYS use.
>
> Thanks for the reply. I am using PHP 5.2.0-8. If short tags are turned
> off by default (I am using PHP 5.2.0-8), then should this work:
>
> <?php $var = 5; ?>
> <!-- other stuff -->
> <?php=$var?><br />
>
> It doesn't. Looks like I need to change all occurances of <?=$some_var?
>> to <?php echo $some_var; ?>
>

Exactly! That is because "=$var" is meaningless.

Shelly

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