Working with a database in Joomla?

Question

PHP

It is necessary to make one more connection to the database in a separate file in the root of the site, for some reason this code does not work (it is not even processed, everything is displayed after "$db = JFactory::getDbo();")

<?
$db = JFactory::getDbo();
$query = $db->getQuery(true);
$query->select($db->quoteName(array('id', 'title', 'fulltext', 'created')));
$query->from($db->quoteName('#__content'));
$query->where($db->quoteName('fulltext') . ' LIKE '. $db->quote('\'%\''));
$query->order('ordering ASC');

Don't know what the problem is (trying locally)?

Answer 1

Short tag <? not processed by the interpreter