Description:
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I have two scripts that work fine on my website hosted by outside server. I installed to PHP on home computer for testing future scripts. The two scripts I do have use a > from a html tag within the PHP script to close the PHP script. There is no ? before the > so it should not do this. 

for some reason the PHP is terminating with the first > it comes across instead of needing a ?> - please help.

Modules that I installed with PHP 5.2.5 for Windows running Apache 2.2.8 are:
cvsclient, dio, docblock, event, EXIF, FDF, Fileinfo, GD2, Gettext, htscanner, pecl_http, id3, IMAP, Java, mailparse, Mimetype, MySQLi, ntuser, oggvorbis, OpenSSL, Operator, parsekit, PDFlib, phar, PHPDoc, POP3, Printer, sdo, Shared Memory, SMTP, SOAP, Sockets, Standard PHP, SQLite, ssh2, Tidy, threads, timezonedb, win32ps, win32schedule, win32service, win32std, zip and zlib_filter.

This problem occured before making any changes to my php.ini file - I have tried making changes to it to correct it but nothing I have done has made a difference.

I haven't done a backtrace yet as I am hoping that this isn't the first issue and I couldn't locate the bug relating to this and there is a simple answer - if a backtrace is needed please let me know.

Reproduce code:
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Script that does cause the problem. 
<?php
echo '<p>This is PHP</p>';
echo '<p>This also is PHP</p>;
?>



Expected result:
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This should output "This is PHP" and "This also is PHP" to the screen 


Fix implemented to make it work (below) - which won't help on complicated scripts so I would appreciate a fix!
<?php
echo '<p>This is PHP</p>
<?php
echo '<p>This also is PHP</p>

Actual result:
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but it outputs 

This is PHP

'; echo '

This also is PHP

'; ?>


the > at the </p> on the first <p>...</p> html tag is closing the PHP script - it is identical problem on my other script - it's not actually the first > as there is one in the opening <p> tag - it's the one (>) after a closing </p> tag so I expect that the / (forward slash) might have something to do with it too!