I'm new to php, I have not been able to figure out how to output the exact string "<?php" as either an HTML string, outputing from a file (i.e. file_get_contents(blah);), or with echo "<?php"; inside a code segment. I assume it is getting interpreted as the opening of a php code segment because no data is output. Any help would be appreciated.
Should work fine:
<?php
print "<?php";
More likely it's interpreted as an HTML tag, use
header("Content-type: text/plain");
Or replace the < with <.