firefox truncating php script

gwalsh

Far too simple for me to understand, I guess!

The most basic php in html I can think of:

<html>
<head>
<h3>PHP Testing</h3>
</head>
<body>
<?php echo '<p>Something or anything!</p>'; ?>
</body>
</html>

Everything is rendered correctly by the browser (Firefox) up to and including the closing paragraph.

BUT, the final 5 characters of the php line are rendered literally: '; ?>

I have tried double quotes with no change. Beats me why the terminating single quote is being ignored.

Obviously this is my gross stupidity, but I can't crack it because I simply cannot see the error in the syntax.

bogu

Remove this:

<h3>PHP Testing</h3>

and change it with this:

<title>PHP Testing</title>

, I don't think this will correct your problem...

Try view source and see if your code looks OK ...

<html>
<head>
    <title>PHP Testing</title>
</head>
<body>
    <p>Something or anything!</p>
</body>
</html>

gwalsh wrote:
firefox truncating php script

Browsers has nothing to do with PHP ...

gwalsh

Hi:

Html and xhtml work perfectly on all my areas.

The problem is with embedding php script.

That is why in setting up the test, I deliberately displayed a header <h3> to ensure things were okay.

In my original post, I tried to show that the browser responds to the php echo command down to the closing single comma. It then literally echos the final characters to the screen without interpretation.

This test file is no different than the most basic illustrations in php texts.

I have typed half a dozen of these samples into the system, and thay all respond the same way.

Kold

It isnt a problem with your browser, PHP is interpreted before it is even sent to the browser. The problem will be with the server.

Post a link to the file yo are having a problem with, and try <?php phpinfo(); ?> too.

The above works for me. Actual output;

<html>
<head>
<title>PHP Testing</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>Something or anything!</p></body>
</html>

Houdini

I have tested your script on:
Firefox
Netscape 8.1
Internet Explorer 7 Beta

and they all worked with no problem.

halojoy

I talked to a guy
having exactly same problem.

<?php echo '<p>Something or anything!</p>'; ?>
<?php .... php starttag
now when comes </p>
server takes '>' for php closing tag
.. and displays: ; ?>
as plain text.

As mentioned earlier, this is a SERVER Setting problem.
That guy having same problem, changed in his Apache httpd.conf configuration
and so was problem solved.

I should;
1. check eventual .htaccess
2. check apache httpd.conf

🙂

Houdini

That or dont bother using the <p> tag at all.

gwalsh

Okay, thanks guys, I am getting a better sense of this. Originally, I thought I was just in a continuous mental loop of my own and couldn't see the error of my ways.

I ran php -i and have made a new hard copy of the output (phpinfo). Tomorrow, when I am a little less cranky, I'll dig into httpd.conf. The development server is running Mandriva 2007 (Cooker), so a hook may well have been missed in a recent update. I'm okay with this now - I know where to look, and I thank you ever so much for the leg-up!

Because I am adhering to W3C XHTML 1.1 on the site development, I don't want to be sloppy about tags: short_open_tag is set to 'Off'.

George