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Originally Posted by goddess_dix

if it works with the short php tags, don't worry about it. some php configurations will require the longer tags. evidently yours doesn't. it would also work with the longer tags, too, so if you move servers, you might need to change it.

exactly, it is just safer to have the long ones, as it works under all configurations as stated above....my config just would not use the short version....

I should have explained that in the post above, sorry about that.