note 11700 added to Configuration

In upgrading from PHP3 to PHP4, I first came in contact with the concepts of short form and long form scripts. I had been writing scripts in PHP3 only in short form, i.e. <?if... echo... > and hadn't realized it. So, after upgrading to PHP4, I was forced to do one of two things: either set the "short_open_tag" in the php.ini file, or convert all of my scripts to long form, i.e. <?php if... echo... >. The latter seemed like a lot of work, so I did the former. I set entered this line in my php.ini file: short_open_tag = on When I saw no results, I realized that I needed to use telnet to restart the server with this command: % restart_apache Now I was getting somewhere, but it still wasn't over. My scripts had lots of little errors, and I realized the final step that was needed. PHP4, on my system anyway, is strict about syntax, and requires <? at the beginning of each line, and a ?> at the end of each line. Previously, in PHP3, I began each line with <? but ended it with a mere >. No question mark. Now, that was necessary. When I replaced all <? ... > with <? ... ?>, then things started working. http://www.php.net/manual/en/configuration.php