php code isnt working like it should

[Anon]

Ive recently installed php4 on 2 separate computers and all was well...until i got this error on two separate computers...the problem is...

whenever i use a conditional statement ie an if statement, that has a '>' or '<' condition in it then the php code seems to stop...and the code after it is treated as text by the browser...a simple example

<?
if ($x > $y){etc etc}
?>

the browser displays the text

$y { etc etc }

and therefore messes the rest of the code following it...i thought i did something wrong in the installation but after installing it on 2 computers then im not sure what is wrong...its as if is treating the > character as an end tag.

anyone got any ideas as to how i can sort this problem out...its been bugging me for days

btw my system configuration is
php 4
mysql 3.23
apache server 1.3.19
win98

thanks
picards hair

[jordan]

My guess is your PHP isn't being parsed at all, and thus the browser is just picking out pairs of &lt; and &gt;. Do a "View Source" in your browser to see if all of your PHP code is there. If not, I'm baffled. But if so, just read the install docs again and make sure that PHP is actually running when a PHP file is retrieved.