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In Windows (WAMP) I have an index.php like this

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<?php
    // ...
?>

and it works as expected.
Now I've just configured a LAMP on Ubuntu and the same file (when invoked from a browser) gives me an error. Looking in error.log I've found

PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /var/www/test/index.php on line 1

If I remove first line everything works fine.
What's wrong? Why this works on Windows and not on Linux?
Could this be caused from a particular extension?

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marked as duplicate by Alexander, Ocramius, Gordon, hakre, Jocelyn Mar 5 '13 at 12:17

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I think the short tags answers will work; in my experience, I've always echoed the <?xml ... ?> string from PHP code so I didn't have to worry about how short tags were set. – Crontab May 8 '12 at 20:45
    
echo '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>'; – Hosam alzagh Feb 19 at 14:14
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It sounds like you have short tags enabled, which will cause PHP to try and parse what comes after <?.

Set the config option short_open_tag in php.ini to 0 or Off and restart Apache.

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A silly mistake that took me a lot of time: thanks a lot!!! – Marco May 8 '12 at 20:50
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Did you check if short tags are enabled/disabled on php.ini?

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Thanks for your help!! I appreciate so much – Marco May 8 '12 at 20:50
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It's not a good idea to work with XML as a string.

You should use php XML libraries like http://de.php.net/manual/en/book.dom.php

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echo '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>'; – Hosam alzagh Feb 19 at 14:12

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