I know this is OT, but just quickly:

It is little known, but the short_open_tag directive is actually a
PHP_INI_PERDIR constant, meaning you can just put the following in a
.htaccess file in the root directory of your application:

php_flag short_open_tag off

And then the short open tag is disabled for your entire application.

Jasper

Kelly Miller wrote:
> 
> True, but that's not always under the PHP author's control.  I never use
> short tags anymore, but I make it a point to echo the prolog in just in
> case.
> 
> Jasper Bryant-Greene wrote:
> 
>> That's correct, it's been around much longer than PHP AFAIK.
>>
>> Also if you turn off short_tags, which is recommended to be off anyway,
>> then you don't even need to echo it.
>>
>> Jasper
>>  
>>
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