Short open tags not work in php5.2.0 and not in php5.2.3

My advice was to put short_open_tag = On in the php.ini file.

The server status is short_open_tag = Off

I set this to short_open_tag = On in the php.ini file in the root of the site.

This did not work but when I renamed the php.ini file to php5.ini this corrected this issue.

However I did not immediately notice but this blocked out the server php.ini file – this start a major component working as it also blocked out zend optimizer.

I have read more about the issue of the short tag.

I have in my limited experience of php coding always used <!–p and not <?
There appears to be a number opinions that setting short_open_tag = On can cause problems where there are xml files as attempts will be made to parse these.

I have been through every php file in the component – I can’t find a short code anywhere in the files.