installation query

[mytutorisfat]

hi guys,

I installed xampp this morning which seemed to go fine other than Windows firewall blocking Apache initially but that is now resolved. My problem comes when I try to run a simple form that should output the data to an email all that happens when I preview in browser and click the submit button is the browser then shows the plain text php code.

<?
$name = $REQUEST['name'];
$email = $REQUEST['email'] ;
$comments = $_REQUEST['comments'] ;

mail( "email goes here", "Feedback Form Results",
$message, "From: £name, $email" );
header( "Location: Web address for redirect goes here" );
?>

So my question is am I missing something in the setup that is making this happen?

Thanks for any help in advance
Mytutorisfat x

[NogDog]

mail() is designed to interact directly with the UNIX/Linux sendmail program. In a Windows environment, you need to jump through some hoops to get it to work, typically using some mail program on your PC with a wrapper that simulates the sendmail API. Personally, I get too aggravated when I try to figure that stuff out, so I use the PHPMailer class, which comes with its own SMTP class. Then it's a fairly simple process to use any SMTP mail account you can access from your PC to send mail.

[bradgrafelman]

Wait, you're seeing PHP code in your browser? If so, that means your webserver never sent the script to the PHP interpreter at all.

Try using the full <?php tags versus the <? short tags (which have long ago been deprecated and aren't even available anymore as of PHP6).