Topic: [SOLVED] <? tag not working..

[~n[EO]n~]

hi all;

i had updated my PHP to 5.2 and my <? tag is not working , it was working before. There are lot of pages so making <? to <?php got time consuming and i changed the setting in php.ini file

short_open_tag = on

it was off and i changed it to on but it is still not working, i restarted my apache and my pc too, but it still does not work,

any help

[MasterACE14]

try turning it back off, then restart Apache, then turn it back on, then restart Apache.

[~n[EO]n~]

nah... didn't work for me, any other solution 

[shocker-z]

open a file in dreamweaver and then (ctrl+f) to find, select "find in" and choose folder (now choose the folder your searching) and replace <? with <?php and it will go through all files and find and replace <? with <?php.

It's always recomended to use <?php instead of <? anyway.

Liam

[jaymc]

Try get a default php.ini file and put the short tags to on, dont edit anything else

use that and restart apache..

Does it work then?

Just trying to eliminate it being a config error somewhere because why wouldnt it work fresh out the box as they say providing php.ini hasnt been tampered with exclusively

[~n[EO]n~]

Yeah now working, it was a silly mistake from my side 

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short_open_tag = on;
it should have been

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short_open_tag = on
One extra semicolon was causing the problem, anyway thanks to all of you guys

[jaymc]

Syntax issues, I hate them !