code display on page

After installing everthing and changing the chmod to everything required.. I get this text on the page I placed the "snipet code" on

poll_process("random");?>

Looking at the code
include_once "/home/hiking/www/poll/booth.php";
echo $php_poll->poll_process("random");?>

It stops the php at the -> in the code...

How can I make it see all of that as code and not part of it as text?

Thnx