How to enable PHP short tags?

Question

I have a web application on a Linux server which starts with

I needed to copy this application to a windows environment and everything is working

Answer 1

if using xampp, you will notice the php.ini file has twice mentioned short_open_tag . Enable the second one to short_open_tag = On . The first one is commented out and you might be tempted to uncomment and edit it but it is over-ridden by a second short_open_tag