[RESOLVED] The most basic question ever

commandonz

I'm trying to get my PC set up to do PHP again, but i'm having a problem with the configuration. phpmyadmin works on my PC fine, but "hello world" doesn't. I'm using Php 4.4.2 on Win XP Pro, using php designer 2006 beta.

With this source

<html>
<head>
 <title>PHP Test</title>
</head>
<body>
<?php echo '<p>Hello There World</p>'; ?>
</body>
</html>

I'm getting this output on my PC

Hello There World

'; ?>

This even more basic version version does something similar on my PC, but again works perfectly on unix

<?php
	echo '<p>Hello There World</p>';
?>

Hello There World

'; ?>

Any ideas why it's doing this? It works fine on my unix server, so it's something to do with my windows config :queasy: 😕

halojoy

first
I suppose you call your script xxxxx.php

what happens is that code is 'jumping out of php mode'
when encounter '>'
in the '</p>'
while this normally should be done at '?>'

I guess you are running at your own server,
and then it maybe can be some server setting
in apache 'httpd.conf'

If you are uploading your pages using FTP, be sure to upload
.php files in ASCII mode, like other text files and scripts like .html java css .sql

have a look at the source 'View source' in your browser.
And if you have a link to that page, it would be interesting to try it
to see if we can notice anything more.

commandonz

Thanks halojoy. Yes, the script is called "hello.php". I took your advice and removed the p tags and their brackets, the script is now

<?php
	echo 'Hello There World';
?>

Now I get no visible output, and when I look at the page source I can see the entire PHP script - it's being spat out, not parsed and executed.

This is really confusing me, especially since phpmyadmin works fine on the same PC, same apache install, same php instance. Very odd and quite frustrating, since i've had it working before!

commandonz

Ok, I worked it out. I was reading my apache config file and discovered that i'd told it to work on a domain I made up and put in my hosts file, instead of localhost. Once I switched to using that URL php started working. I've no idea why, but i'd be happy to hear any thoughts if anyone has one.

halojoy

well, it is not your script.
so can be:
- apache configuration
- php.ini
- .htaccess

phpmyadmin is a PHP Script
so that makes it probably it is a local directory setting, not a general setting
apache ha got directory settings
can be both in httpd.conf and .htaccess

well, is a mystery to me, too

commandonz

Thanks again, you posted just after me 🙂 How do I mark the thread as resolved?

halojoy

resolved: in one blue topbar, you have
'Thread Tools'
mark resolved

commandonz

Many thanks 🙂