Unexpected T_STRING in an Apple iWeb site.

If you have a customer using Apple IWEB, you might come across an error that looks something like this:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /home/username/public_html/index.html on line 1
To correct this, you need to turn short_open_tags off in PHP.

Here are 2 ways to do this:

.htaccess

php_flag short_open_tag off
— OR —
php_value short_open_tag 0

PHP.INI

Find the line that says short_open_tag in php.ini and turn it off