I don't have the time to read your ******, unorganized post.
Learn to take criticism, we are pointing out something that you don't know, or seem to "think you know."
Short tags (<? <%) must be enabled in PHP.ini, and I believe it is not a default setting.
If the server you work on allows it, your lucky, as most servers do not.
<?php is the official way, better way, and more professional way to do it.
If your coding looks like this:
<?php
$name = 'name';
if($name == "name") { echo "blabla"; } echo $name; if($name == "hello") { echo "hey"; }
?>
Thats not professional at all, thats awful stinky code.
Why not teach them the right way then? Quit trying to be hard headed, your in a group of people who know 300x more about PHP then you ever will.I'm not teaching people who already know I'm teaching people who want to know.








good luck.
