"<?=" does not work for me.....

[eluser]Mr Lazy[/eluser]
Hello,

I have been trying to set up the layout for my first CodeIgniter site, and I hit the annoying snag that when outputting into a master layout template, this worked:

Code:

<!-- Displays the main content for the page. -->
<?php echo $content; ?>

but this did not..

Code:

<!-- Displays the main content for the page. -->
<?= $content ?>

nothing was outputted at all. What is going on here?

Many Thanks,
L

[eluser]xwero[/eluser]
three possibilities :

- the php.ini setting doesn't allow short tags
- the CI rewrite_short_tags is FALSE instead of TRUE
- content has no visible value to echo