PHP syntax highlighting not working without <?php

Hi there,

It's a correct behaviour -- opening tag is required ... otherwise the content is treated as plain text/HTML.

Do you have short tag there (<? instead of <?php) ... or no tags at all?

In any case -- some clarification might be required (in case if I misunderstood your situation) -- screenshots/file samples etc.

I'm using no opening tag at all. Even though it is valid PHP code, I'm getting no highlighting/indentation whatsoever - it is treated as plain text. The files all have extension .php. Here's the screenshots:

Without opener:

With opener:

But .. PHP itself requires opening <?php tag ... otherwise it treats such file as plain text... (unless I'm missing something new from PHP config).

 In any case: PhpStorm does not have such option -- <?php is required to specify where PHP code starts.

OK thanks. I'm pretty new to PHP, and some of the ZF example code does not use the opening tag. Again, thanks.

Here is PHP execution results of the some test file -- as you can see the file was not interpreted by PHP as such -- it was treated as plain text so was sent to the output as is.

Surely, I can use "-r" option for PHP CLI Interpreter for some very simple code chunks .. but from what I see it does not work with files.

Maybe your ZF2 works differently (sorry, never used Zend Framework 2 myself ... only few individual components from ZF1)

Thanks for trying it, Andriy