Beau Lebens wrote:
<?php is more reliable - you can configure a server to ignore "<?" as an opening PHP tag (short_tags i think the directive is from memory).
for compatibilities sake, you should always use the <?php tag in your coding, but if short tags are enabled, then technically the 2 are the same (both just define a block of PHP code)
For the 0.3 ASP programmers at WSG (I used to be one, but not anymore *grin* and I don't know how many there are here), when learning PHP, you can enable an ASP style of tag delimiter <% /* php code here */ %>. I've never used it myself, but I gather the shorttag vs specifying the full <%php rules still apply.
within httpd.conf / .htaccess the directive takes the form (i think)
php_admin_value asptags on|off
It's also available in php.ini and can be set using the ini_set() function
Although the feature seems utterly useless in my opinion. When using a programming language, I believe that you should stay within the bounds of the language syntax structure rather than modifying it to suit another, let alone another language that I don't like. :)
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