PHP broken code on local machine but working on staging server

Question

Hiya all,

I'm having a strange issue here, i have this bit of code:

<?php
if ($node->nid == "1") {
    include 'front.tpl.php';
    return;
} else { 
?>

    <div id="left-col" class="grid_9">
     <h1><?php print $title ?></h1>
     <hr />
     <?php global $user;if ( $is_admin ) { ?>[<a href="/node/<?php print $node->nid ?>/edit">Edit</a>]<? } ?>
      <?php if ($show_messages) { print $messages; } ?>
       <?php print $help ?>
      <?php print $content; ?>  
 </div>
<?php } ?>

This exact code is working fine on the staging server, i've litrally just installed a LAMP stack using XAMPP and downloaded the code from the server.

PHP is now throwing this error:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected $end in F:\Workspace\xx\xx\xx\xx\xx\node.tpl.php on line 19

Anyone have any ideas what it could be? i have a feeling it "might" be due to the jumping in and out of tags but i'm not certain, can anyone shed some light on this. (this might be a server issue in which case i will also happily take advice on what php.ini settings need to be poked in the right direction!

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

My guess is the server doesn't have short tag support turned on.

<? } ?>