Apache/ PHP (XAMPP) does not recognize Well, when I knew how to write the title of the post I already solved the problem. After the new XAMPP install with PHP 5.3.4 my PHP code stopped to work, interpreting here and there like plain text. I was not sure what is going on: is that Savant who can not work with PHP 5.3.4 or anything else. The problem was that this XAMPP install switches off 'short_open_tag' parameter in php.ini. Once I fixed it and restarted Apache everything worked just fine.

Well, when I knew how to write the title of the post I already solved the problem.

After the new XAMPP install with PHP 5.3.4 my PHP code stopped to work, interpreting here and there like plain text. I was not sure what is going on: is that Savant who can not work with PHP 5.3.4 or anything else.

The problem was that this XAMPP install switches off 'short_open_tag' parameter in php.ini. Once I fixed it and restarted Apache everything worked just fine.