[RESOLVED] Server Setting? Nothing Past First Block of Code Executed

[SurgeProto]

I'm running into a problem where the first block of PHP code is properly executed but any subsequent blocks are not. For example, let's say I have the following code:

<? echo "do something"; ?>
<p>test</p>
<? echo "do something else"; ?>

The displayed result would be:

do something
<p>test</p>
<? echo "do something else"; ?>

If I never break between PHP code, it would execute everything. Is this a server setting or something I can correct? Any insight on this would be very much appreciated!

[bradgrafelman]

View the source code of the page in your browser and you'll probably find that none of the PHP code is being parsed/executed.

The cause is most likely your use of the "<?" short tags. These tags have been deprecated for quite some time and are disabled by default (even removed altogether from future versions of PHP). As such, you should always use the full "<?php" opening tag rather than "<?". Likewise, you should use "<?php echo (expression); ?>" instead of "<?=(expression);?>".

[SurgeProto]

Actually, it was executing the first block of PHP code fine, but you were right about the <? vs <?php. Once I replaced the others with the <?php it worked. Thank you!