Short tag does not work...??

[eluser]NogDog[/eluser]
My first suggestion would be to just not use short tags. It's a bad habit to get into since it binds any code that uses it to an environment which has short tags enabled. As far as the option to have CI process short tags even when the PHP configuration does not have it enabled, that comes at the expense of all such code be eval()'d, which will add additional processing overload and likely make debugging a bit more difficult due to any applicable errors showing up as eval() errors. Therefore my preference, at least, is to just type a few more characters and never have to worry about it again.