Yes, Short tags should be On, cause
<? phpinfo(); ?> results in the exptected page. Still unable to understand why this is happening, here are some of the following code snippets with the errors: <?php somejunk; somemorejunk; anotherlineofjunk; ?> NO ERROR REPORTED FROM PHP [results in the Apache/access.log] 127.0.0.1 - - [03/Oct/2002:13:33:49 +0530] "GET /real/1.php HTTP/1.1" 200 5 ------- <?php somejunk; somemorejunk; anotherlineofjunk; ?> Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_STRING in c:\program files\apache group\apache\htdocs\real\1.php on line 2 [results in the Apache/access..log] 127.0.0.1 - - [03/Oct/2002:13:36:08 +0530] "GET /real/1.php HTTP/1.1" 200 161 ------- I hope this provides enough information to someone who can tell what is going wrong. thx gamin. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php