php short_open_tag problem

hi i am working on a project of my college but my college server admin told me that we don’t use short_open_tag in our code what’s its mean? what is sho开发者_JAVA百科rt open tag and what is alternate of it

thanks

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Normally you write PHP like so: <?php PHP CODE HERE ?>. However if allow_short_tags directive is enabled you're able to use: <? PHP CODE HERE ?>. Also sort tags provides extra syntax: <?= $var ?> which is equal to <?php echo $var ?>.

Short tags might seem cool but they're not. They causes only more problems. Oh... and IIRC they'll be removed from PHP6.

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You can try the tool at:

http://blog.eezgu.com/php-short-open-tag-sorunu-ve-cozumu.html

This is a PHP command line tool that converts short tags to normal PHP tags.

The page is not English but you can click the link in the post and download the tool.