PHP arrow operator closing tags

Question

I am writing a php app on the websever I set up at my house. It is a fedora10 machine, running php5 and mysql. I have code like this:

<?php echo $var->function(); ?>

But for some reason the -> is closing the php tag, so the output has 'function(); ?' added to it...is there something I need to change in my php or webserver configuration?

Answer 1

I dont think that you have mod_php enabled in your apache config file, or else you would never see the php code in the output. Here is a good tutorial on setting up php 5 in apache.