Is there a way to turn php off for part of a file?

short tag problem (<? ?>) instead of (<?php ?>)

[benlieb]

That is I want to turn php off at a certain point in a file.

The following crashes php because my host has short tags turned on.

<?import namespace="AI" implementation="aiEditor.htc" />

I don't even know what the above code type is, but it's necessary for a web-gui that I'm trying out.

How would you get around this?

[mincklerstraat]

what you could do is go into PHP *before* anything like <? comes up and output that part by echoing it.

<?php 
echo '<?import namespace="AI" implementation="aiEditor.htc" />'; 
?> 

[mincklerstraat]

forgot, another thing is just to use an .htaccess file in your root directory to turn off short tags:

php_flag short_open_tag off

[benlieb]

mincklerstraat,

These are both great ideas. Thanks for the help. I had never delved into .htaccess files, but now intend to soon.