PHP3 to PHP4 shows { and }

[Anon]

I'm very confused. I just recently made the jump from PHP3 to PHP4, after hearing all of the wonders of the new version.

I've always used <? and ?> tags in my code, and named my files with the extension .php3 -- and most of my code executes flawlessly (as best as one can hope).

However, in my move from PHP3 to PHP4, I set PHP4 to be able to handle the .php3 extension. Strange things begin to show up ... for instance, my code is parsed, but the { and } are left behind and shown in HTML.

Am I missing something? I read through the "migration" page on php.net, and saw nothing relevant. It's not any wacky calls to custom C functions -- just plain PHP.

Please help -- I'd like to stick with PHP4, if possible.

Thanks in advance.

--Anthony

[Anon]

http://php.net/manual/language.basic-syntax.php

Try that page, and ensure shorttags() is set like mentioned.

That's the only thing I can think of...well, other than just changing your tags to <?php and ?>.