Problem with Heroku and PHP

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I'm creating a PHP application within Heroku. The problem is Heroku doesn't understand some tags as PHP. For example, <?=$some_var?> is not recognized as PHP, but as pure HTML.

Do I have to configure something or use <?php echo $some_var ?>, for example, instead?

fixlr · Accepted Answer · 2011-12-19 20:39:00Z

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You need to turn on short opening tags for your app on Heroku. Create a file called "php.ini" in the root folder of your project and add the following to it:

short_open_tag = true

answered Dec 19, 2011 at 20:39

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William Denniss Over a year ago

Thanks for answering this without suggesting a workaround! I needed to change a different configuration option – which has no workaround – and this solution did the trick :)

Alex · Accepted Answer · 2011-09-19 12:44:20Z

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These <?= opening tags are called "short opening tags", and their use is set the PHP configuration file.

It is generally not advised to use short tags for this very reason; there's no guarantee the server you'll deploy on will be configured to use them.

answered Sep 19, 2011 at 12:44

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technoTarek Over a year ago

FYI, PHP short tags are default and always starting with PHP 5.4. See docs.php.net/manual/en/migration54.new-features.php.

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