I haven't used PHP heavily in about 2 years, but it surprises me that at this point there's not a configuration setting that negates the need for the opening PH

I haven't used PHP heavily in about 2 years, but it surprises me that at this point there's not a configuration setting that negates the need for the opening PHP tag and instead just treats everything in a .php file as php. I doubt anyone using PHP at Tumblr's level is mixing raw HTML into their PHP files and thus has no need for the php tags.