Was just editing a site I\'m working on to include the subscription form in the footer.php rather than just the homepage. I made the changes on the local server the
Basic syntax of php opening tag is <?php[whitespace] not just <?php, see here http://php.net/manual/en/language.basic-syntax.phptags.php#118827.
So the right syntax would be adding a white space in between php opening and closing tag <?php ?>