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php tag - short and long form

laccata

I have recently installed php 4.2.1 and need a pointer or two wrt configuration.

1) I cannot get php tags to work inside html pages - i.e. if mypage.html has any php code, the code just appears in the browser as plain text. So, I have to have mypage.php and all is (nearly) ok except ...

2) If I use the short form for the php tag, I get what I want - a page displayed in the browser.

So <?=$var_val?> is fine.

If I use the long form, the browser just hangs and the page is never displayed.

So, <?php =$var_val ?> never makes it to the browser and the browser stays busy.

It has the feel of recursion about it.
My html knowledge is virtually zero - sorry.

Anon

<?php= isn't supported, and is not likely to be supported.

laccata

Thanks for the help.

<head>
    <title>Example</title>
</head>
<body>

    <?php
    echo "Hi, I'm a PHP script!";
    ?>

</body>

doesn't work if the file is saved as phptest.html, but does if saved as phptest.php. This code was copied from the php manual.

I've just added

AddType application/x-httpd-php .html
in the <IfModule mod_php4.c> section of httpd.conf and this seems to give me what I want.

If anyone knows of any problems with this, please let me know.

Thanks