JoeB wrote:

> Since the ISP changed somthing, the opening php tag no longer works.
>
> <? echo("joe"); ?>
>
> fails, where as this code:
>
> <?php echo("joe"); ?>
>
> works as expected.
>
> Is there a setting in the phpinfo where i can see if this is disabled?
> PHPinfo reports version 4.4.7.

Yes, it's called "short_tags" and is disabled by default.

Having it enabled may cause some problems when using "<?xml" at the start of
your XHTML documents.

> This is the 1st time ive seen this error, and its a masive headache as
> the web design co (the old company) wrote the entire site (1000's of
> pages) using <? instead of <?php

Well, then just write a script to do the dirty work for you.

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