<?php ?>

For some reasons my php code does not work unless i put the php keyword after the ? in my code as shows in the following example.

<?php
echo "Hello";
?>
The above code works



<?
echo "Hello";
?>
The above code does not work


What settings do i need to do to make the second code work?

Thanx

Is there a reason why you want to use <? instead of <?php ?

AFAIK <?php is the preferred tag anyway...

Alex

Coz Thats a shortcut and I have seen many times people using <? instead of <?php

The short open tag <? is NOT server independent and also causes problems with xml code inside of php files. Php.net itself cautions against using it when writing portable code that will work on any server.

Don't use it.

For some reasons my php code does not work unless i put the php keyword after the ? in my code as shows in the following example.

<?php
echo "Hello";
?>
The above code works



<?
echo "Hello";
?>
The above code does not work


What settings do i need to do to make the second code work?

Thanx


you need to enable short tags in php.ini

find this short_open_tag and set it to On

short_open_tag = On

How hard is it to type

<?php instead of <?

?

The best way is to write out the whole opening tag, and it requires almost zero extra effort.. I would stick with that!

Dan