Difference between <?php and <?

Question

I am new to php and would like to know if there are any differences between these server tags :

and

Answer 1

Also I think shorttags are being removed in one of the upcomming releases.

Edit: I was wrong.

Farewell <% They will remove support for the ASP style tags, but the PHP short-code tag will remain - so to those on php general who reckon the short-tag is 'depreceated' - hah! ;)

http://phpmysqldev.blogspot.com/2007/05/php-6.html