I use the debugger under windows (v3.8.) and the following piece of code is not recognized by the debugger. It simply steps over it and shows no output:

<?
echo "Hello";
?>

But when I start with <?php then the debugger steps right into it and works correctly, like

<?php
echo "Hello";
?>

Is this a real problem or am I missing a setting somewhere?

Thanks

did you enable php shorttags?

I both enabled and disabled the php short tags, but with no result.

you are probably using a different php.ini when using the debugger, try phpinfo() to see which file you are using