Line breaks outside <?php tags
<p>My web host's PHP engine is taking everything outside &lt;?php ?&gt; and replacing line breaks with &lt;br&gt;, like so:</p>

<pre><code>&lt;?php

echo 'php1';

?&gt;

Hello
world

&lt;?php
echo 'php2';
?&gt;
</code></pre>

<p>The output I get is:</p>

<pre><code>php1
&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Hello&lt;br&gt;world&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;php2
</code></pre>

<p>All of the other servers I use do this, which is what I want:</p>

<pre><code>php1

Hello
world

php2
</code></pre>

<p>Can I disable this behaviour?</p>
