On 2/01/2008, at 6:28 PM, Antti Harri wrote:
> On Wed, 2 Jan 2008, STeve Andre' wrote:

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>>   However I can't use imbedded php like

>>

>>          <? require_once('header.php'); ?>

>

> Use <?php ?>

>

>> so  I'm missing something and I haven't found what it is after a lot

>> of looking around.  Can someone point me in the correct direction?

>

> --

> Antti Harri

Longer explanation ...
This one has stung me a number of times - seems short tags are no

longer the

default in PHP 5 (something about playing better with XML.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PHP
You can get short tags to work if you change your php.ini ...
See short_open_tag entry right near the top of this page:
http://nz.php.net/manual/en/ini.core.php
... but you are *really* better off getting in the habit of using

long tags - it is the way the (PHP) world is going.
Unfortunately this means that ...
<?=$var?>
no longer works - have to use ...
<?php echo $var?>
HTH - and you WILL forget this half-a-dozen times - leads to odd

errors, especially when you are pulling in include files.

(If you change a few tags in a file but not all of them, you'll

probably get unexpected $end errors - it hits the end of the

source file without finding matching open/close PHP tags.)