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I would recommend doing as much as is within your power to get the version of PHP on your server upgraded. As mentioned in the PHP manual ( http://php.net/manual/en/ini.core.php#in...t-open-tag ), the <?= short tags are always available in versions of PHP from 5.4 onwards. While CI supports older versions of PHP, version 5.3 of PHP reached "end of life" in August, meaning it has not received any security patches in 4 months ( http://php.net/eol.php ).

I've been in the situation of having to pick a lot of this up from scratch myself, so I'll just add a note that client-side JavaScript will be enclosed in <script> tags, optionally with a lang or type attribute. One of the reasons the question mark is used at the start of the opening tag for many server-side languages is that it is not a valid character for an element name in HTML or XML, so no valid HTML element will start with <?.

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