Question

I took over a PHP project and I’m trying to get it running on my dev box. I’m a developer and not a sysadmin, so I’m having trouble getting it working.

The previous developer used .h files to include PHP. My current configuration is taking that .h file and including it without executing it. What do I need to look for in my apache config (or is it my php.ini)?

EDIT:

Something clicked when I read one of the comments below. The code is using ASP style tags ‘<?‘. I’ve turned the option on in php.ini and according to phpinfo(), it’s enabled, but apache is still just including the code as text.

I just checked it and running the code with the full opening PHP tag ‘<?php‘ fixes the problem. Having said that, I’d still like it to work the other way.

I’m running the code on a Macbook with the latest versions available. PHP 5.2.6, postgresql 8.3 and apache 2.

The code works on the staging server, but I can’t figure out what the difference it.

EDIT

Durrr…I didn’t have short_open_tags enabled in php.ini.

Answer 1

Could the problem be that the .h file you are including just starts into php code without the opening ‘<?php‘ tag?

From include documentation:

When a file is included, parsing drops out of PHP mode and into HTML mode at the beginning of the target file, and resumes again at the end. For this reason, any code inside the target file which should be executed as PHP code must be enclosed within valid PHP start and end tags.