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Windows php error on first line with <?

I have a php script which starts with the following line

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

It works fine in the LAMP world but when I port it to Windows I think it thinks this line is code when it's not as I get this error in Visual Studio:

Syntax error: unexpected token 'version'

Is there a way that I can get Windows php to not consider this to be code? I thought all code blocks had to start with <?php?

Solution

  • You can just use the header function of PHP to render this tag for you. Put this at the very first line of your code:

    <? header("Content-type: text/xml; charset=utf-8") ?>

    Then you won't have problems with the opening PHP tag.