PHP setup issue

[movieflick]

I setup Wamp5 on my windows xp system to do some php tutorials. When I use

<?

the code dose not parse but when I use

<?php

it does. Why is this? How can I fix this?

Thankx

[NogDog]

You can turn on "short_tags" in your php.ini file, but it's probably better to leave it off and get used to using the long form. This makes your scripts more portable, plus it helps avoid confusion with XML declaration tags.