Question

I have a simple CakePHP application and in my Views, I dynamically set the title for each view:

<? $this->viewVars['title_for_layout'] = 'Wicked Awesome Title' ?>

However on one of my machines, the code is not run but instead outputted to the browser windows as if it weren’t recognized PHP code.

<!-- Actual output in the browser window. -->    
viewVars['title_for_layout'] = 'Wicked Awesome Title' ?>

If I place the proper <?php tag, everything runs fine, but that is not the default way CakePHP recommends.

Why does it work on one machine, but not in the other?

Answer 1

One of your machines does not have short_open_tags enabled in its configuration.