What's wrong with this??

NZ_Kiwi

This is at the top of my page

<? 
$ref = $_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']; 
?>

then have this

TEST: <php echo $ref; ?></

my page only shows: TEST

nothing else

devinemke

your opening PHP tag is malformed

bpat1434

All php files should open with:

<?php

Then, when you want to go back into php from HTML you can just use <? ?>. But, to declare what language you're in you MUST start the first php section with <?php.

Example

<?php
include ("somefile.php")
?>
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
<? somefunctioninsomefile(); ?>
</body>
</html>

<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
Test: <?php echo($_SERVER['HTTP_REFERER']); ?>
</body>
</html>

Installer

What devinemke said is correct; the opening tag is missing the "?". What bpat said is incorrect; if "short_open_tag" is "on" then "<?" can be used anywhere, if it's off you must use "<?php" every time.