PHP on IIS using <? ?>

[Daryl Rubble]

I am trying to script a page on my IIS server running PHP, and every time i try to use the <? ?> in the script, it wont load it.


Normal Page with NO error

<?php
  echo"this is what is working fine but when i close and reopen the php it causes a error";
  
?>

Page With Error

<?php
  echo"this is what is working fine but when i close and reopen the php it causes a error";
 ?>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<center>this is where it causes the error<br> because i shut the php down using the "?>"</center>
</body>
<?
echo"Now the page wont load couse i used the ?> <?"; 
?>

Any help on this ASAP would be greatly appricated

[dlite922]

When you say it doesn't load the page, do you see just white space? can you look at the page source and see if there's anything is there?

Do you have PHP error reporting turned on?


Dan

[Markus]

You probably don't have short_open_tag turned on. Use <?php ?> instead.

[dlite922]

Can't believe I didn't catch that. I've seen better days, I guess.


Dan

[Atli]

You probably don't have short_open_tag turned on. Use <?php ?> instead.

Seconded.

The <? ... ?> syntax is turned off by default. Best to just forget about it and always use <?php ... ?>.