Question

I’m trying to get the php executable to parse scripts, but it’s not working. i run something like this:

php c:\test.php

and test.php contains this:

<?
echo 'hello!';
?>

and that is exactly what running the command returns. It returns the raw code. How can I get it to actually parse the code and return “hello!” instead?

Answer 1

Make sure you have the short_open_tag setting enabled in your php.ini. Failing that, use the ever-so-slightly longer <?php to start your script.