does PHP Version 5.3.2 work without <?php woth with <?

i have one complete website

which was written in php4, now my hosting server is PHP Version 5.3.2, windows 2008 server

and my site is not working, what i found is old site use following syntax

<?

but if i change it into

<?p开发者_如何学编程hp

page start working. is there any way to solve this issue...

1. PHP Version 5.3.2 work with

   <?
   

2. any script which change all

   <? to <?php 
   

in all pages.

This is not down to the PHP version, but depends on the short_open_tag php.ini setting.

You can change the ini setting to "1", but the use of short open tags is generally discouraged these days.

Short tags are a discouraged feature of PHP. You should convert all <? to <?php, because as of PHP 6.0, they will be deprecated. (This is partially to better support XML documents, which have a tag that starts with <?)

BTW, you can turn them on in your configuration.

the following code snippet helped me convert all short tags to proper PHP tags, hope it helps you too:

• REPLACING SHORT TAGS WITH PROPER PHP TAGS (archived copy)

There is a directive in your php.ini file called "short_open_tag". This is what allows you to use the shorthand or not. They should not be used anymore though, so its better if you update all tags to the new format.

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