we've been recommending to not use short-open-tag for a long time.
E_STRICT too for 5.1 since it promotes the right ways (tm) to do things.
#
# This is for 5.1, 5.1, 5.1, 5.1...
#
; servers which are not under your control, because short tags may not
; be supported on the target server. For portable, redistributable code,
; be sure not to use short tags.
-short_open_tag = On
+short_open_tag = Off
; Allow ASP-style <% %> tags.
asp_tags = Off
;
;error_reporting = E_COMPILE_ERROR|E_ERROR|E_CORE_ERROR
;
-; - Show all errors
+; - Show all errors, including coding standards warnings
;
-error_reporting = E_ALL
+error_reporting = E_ALL | E_STRICT
; Print out errors (as a part of the output). For production web sites,
; you're strongly encouraged to turn this feature off, and use error logging