Re: <? vs <?PHP
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Re: <? vs <?PHP

From: CJ Llewellyn <cj.llewellyn@gmail.com>
Date: Mon Apr 17 2006 - 11:09:15 CEST

On Mon, 17 Apr 2006 00:13:32 +0100, Paul Lautman wrote:

> I often see the former starting delimiter rather than the latter. Is there
> some rule about where the former can be used?

<? is a shortened version of <?php for programmers too lazy to type <?php.
As <? is configurable in the php.ini file and can be turned off, so it's
availablity on any given web server is not guarentied. So use it at your
peril.
Received on Mon May 1 02:57:40 2006