Which php tags do you use? "<?php" or "<?" ? I think I heard that in recent versions of PHP there will be no support anymore for "<?". At least I think I heard, so please correct me if I'm wrong. ;)

I've tried both to no avail.

The easiest way to diagnose whether it's a c5 problem or WAMP is to create your own simple php file like:



If that doesn't work, then WAMP is not interpreting the PHP. My guess is that it may be a problem with the WAMP setup (i.e. php files not in the right directory, "servers" not running, etc.)

That's that first thing I did before I made this. It works fine.

The code that shows in the source is . The shows nothing, no php, no html. And the header leaves a gap at the top

Have you enabled short tags in the php.ini file? A quick Google search or search on the WAMP forums can show you how. Give that a whirl (then restart apache after you make the change).

Yes I have, and I've even tried to using <?php and it still does the same thing.

Does concrete5 work fine with the pre-installed themes on your WAMP setup? If it's just messing up when you install your own theme, then it's probably something going wrong with the way you're building the theme. Without seeing your site / code / theme it's hard to know.

Forgive me if you've already done this. But if you haven't, it's helpful to check out Andrew Embler's "how to" video:
http://www.concrete5.org/documentation/how-tos/designers/make-a-the...

Be sure you're walking through all the steps correctly--I've botched themes before and had to review it. Although this video isn't made using 5.5 or higher, themes built this way should still function properly.

Works fine with all the default themes, watched the video, did what i said to do, even reinstalled c5. I'm am completely baffled, I'm not a complete noob at this stuff either, but this sure has stumped me.

Got it to work using
And in order to get the header to work I had to have the footer added into it also.

Not sure if this is the proper way but it's the only way I got to work for me now..

Using <?php echo (); ?> is the same thing as <?= ?>, so it still sounds like there's a short-tags issue going on. But I have run across the issue where the footer_required call is necessary. See this post (towards the end):https://www.concrete5.org/community/forums/documentation_efforts/new...