This is a copy of a post to the maxigallery thread. I repeat it here because I guess this is where most of the hardcore programmers hang out and the issue goes further than maxigallery.
I have just spent half an hour tracking down a bizarre failure in trying to get maxigallery running.
The cause was watermark/Thumbnail.class.php which begins with a ’<?’ tag rather than a ’<?php’ tag. The version of php I was running had short tags disabled and so the file was not recognised as php.
There is no good reason for using ’<?’ as opposed to ’<?php’ and some environments may choose to disable short tags as mine had.
So for use maximum portability use ’<?php’ always.
Ed
