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greenpig · #1 (**permalink**) 08-06-08, 10:30 PM

Hi, I'm new to this site and relatively new to PHP, so my apologies if this has been answered before (a quick search of the forum didn't turn up anything).

I code my web pages in XHTML and they all start:

HTML Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">

I want to parse these pages for PHP, but when I do the first of these lines throws up an "unexpected T_STRING" parse error. A look at phpinfo() showed me that "short_open_tag=on" by default on my hosting service. So I created a custom php.ini file that sets short_open_tag=off, and now phpinfo() confirms that short tags are off. However I'm still getting the same parser error:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in [URL] on line 1

I know it is possible to work around this problem by wrapping the offending line in a <?php echo ... ?> command, but this breaks the syntax checker in BBEdit, where I do my coding. Does anyone have any ideas what else might be causing the parser to choke on this line?

Thanks!