<?= no longer works after upgrading PHP

[post]

I'm trying to figure out what is wrong with my PHP installation, I am running PHP 5 and Apache with mySQL. I have been trying to use

<?=$filed('$username')?>

within a input box:

    <td>Login:<?php if($e_username) echo(' <font color="#ff0000">*</font>'); ?></td>
    <td align="right"><input type="text" name="username" style="width:140px;" value="<?=$field[$username]?>">
    </td>
  </tr>
  <tr>

$field is referring to a function that I have and $username

$username = $_POST['username'];
if empty then $e_username = $true
$field
<?php
    function field($value)
    {
        return str_replace('"', '&quot;', stripslashes($value));
    }
 
    foreach($_POST as $key)
        unset($key);
 
    if($_COOKIE['username'])
    {
        if(mysql_num_rows($q = mysql_query("select clients.clientid, clientdata.name from clients left join clientdata on clientdata.clientid=clients.clientid where clients.username like '{$_COOKIE['username']}' and clients.password='{$_COOKIE['password']}'")))
        {
            $f = mysql_fetch_array($q);
            $account['clientid'] = $f['clientid'];
            $account['name'] = $f['name'];
        }
    }
?>

I can't get it to work I tried using <?php <?= and <? but I had it working perfectly fine with <?= running PHP 4 I believe can anyone help me out?

Thanks in advance

[shane3341436]

If your codes work for <?php, ?> tags then there must be problem with ur php.ini file. You can uncomment 'short_open_tag ' in ur php.ini file and change it to 'on' state. This allows the short hand <?, ?> tags too

[Weisbartb]

[PHP]
<?php
phpinfo(-1);
?>
[/php]
Please run that and post the results.

PS: Please use the code and php tags.

[pbmods]

Heya, post. Welcome to TSDN!

Please use CODE tags when posting source code:

[CODE=php]
PHP code goes here.
[/CODE]

Changed thread title to better describe the problem (did you know that threads whose titles do not follow the Posting Guidelines actually get FEWER responses?).

[pbmods]

You are trying to use short tags with a PHP installation that likely has short tags turned off.

Try using

<?php echo $filed('$username'); ?>

instead.

As a sidenote, it's a good idea to wean yourself off of short tags, because once XHTML takes over and HTML goes by the wayside, short tags will interfere with your XML declarations, or more appropriately, properly including XML declarations will break your PHP.