What did i do wrong?

Anon

ok im working on learning php... i bought a book... and this is what it told me to do...

code:

<head> <title>Using Numbers</title> </head> <body> <?php / $Quantity must be passed to this page from a form or via the URL. $Discount is optional. / $Cost = 2000.00; $Tax = 0.06 $TotalCost = $Cost $Quantity; $TotalCost = $Tax + 1; //$Tax is now worth 1.06 $TotalCost = $TotalCost - $Discount; $TotalCost = $TotalCost $Tax; $Payments = $TotalCost / 12; //Print the results. print ("You Requested to purchase $Quantity widget(s) at \$$Cost each.\n<p>"; print ("The total with tax, minus your \$$Discount, comes to \$$Payments each.\n<p>"; print ("You may purchase the widget(s) in 12 monthly installments of \$$Payments each.\n<p>"; ?> </body>

here is mine... i get a black screen... http://www.bluntedbynature.curvedspaces.com/php/numbers.php
tell me what i did wrong please...

Anon

Check your script again. I went to the page and looked at the source. The <title> is whats doing it...

The source says
<title>Using Numbers</titles>

That s at the end of the title disqualifies the closing tag. Title is one of those very few tags in HTML that absolutely has to be closed, or the entire document gets read as the title.

You need to really look at the script hard, to see what I mean, open the page, get the blank, and then view source, see what the server is sending. There is a Javascript after the closing html tag thats partial, etc..

Try fixing the closing title tag, it should work.

HTH,

Jim Hawley