[RESOLVED] Can't Echo HTML Correctly

maduncs

A simple script:

<?php
Echo "<html>";
Echo "<title>HTML with PHP</title>";
Echo "<b>My Example</b>";

//your php code here

Print "<i>Print works too!</i>";
?>

when i view it in firefox i get:

"; Echo ""; Echo "My Example"; //your php code here Print "Print works too!"; ?>

this is driving me insane, whats wrong?

NogDog

Either PHP is not enabled, or if you are running this locally you are not accessing the page via a URL (as opposed to double-clicking the PHP file or opening it from the File menu of the browser.

daveyc

If you're wanting to run it locally on your machine for testing purposes however, there's a great little piece of software called easyphp: Download Here

I use this for testing my scripts before i upload them to the web 🙂

As NogDog said, it's definately the fact that php is not installed on your webserver, or you're trying to access the file on your local machine in your browser.

Hope this helps.

Dave

bpat1434

PHP could very well be "installed"; however, if you don't have the server recognize that ".php" is a server-parsed extension, then this could show up.

So if your Apache config (if you're using Apache) doesn't have a line similar to:

AddType application/x-httpd-php .php

Then you have an issue ...

Other than easyPHP there are other packages out there:

XAMPP
Server2Go
WOS
NuSphere Tech Platform

Any one of those will work just as good as the next. It's just a matter of preference for which you use.

halojoy

bpat1434 wrote:
Other than easyPHP there are other packages out there:
XAMPP
Server2Go
WOS
NuSphere Tech Platform

Add one more interesting PHP Server package to those

UniformServer for Windows
http://www.uniformserver.com/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/miniserver/

The Uniform Server is a lightweigt server solution for running a web server under the WindowsOS.
7.01 MB!
It includes the latest versions of
- Apache2, Perl5, PHP5, MySQL5, phpMyAdmin
.

maduncs

thanks a lot for all the feedback. works well now!!

dalecosp

So, would you mind to mark the thread as "resolved"?

Thanks!