php short_open_tag problem

Question

hi i am working on a project of my college but my college server admin told me that we don’t use short_open_tag in our code what’s its mean? what is short open tag and what

Answer 1

Normally you write PHP like so: . However if allow_short_tags directive is enabled you're able to use: . Also sort tags provides extra syntax: which is equal to .

Short tags might seem cool but they're not. They causes only more problems. Oh... and IIRC they'll be removed from PHP6.