Displaying my PhP correctly

Orion1004

Hello all,
Thought this would be an appropriate place to start. I'm working on a school website that will be a form and needs to display the outputs. I've set up the html side of things but when it switches to the php page, I only see the code.
I'm sure its something really simple but for the life of me I cannot get the form data to show.
Thanks!

cahva

So PHP isnt working at all? What does it do when you put this code to for example file called phpinfo.php and view it:

<?php
phpinfo();
?>

If it shows the code in browser, it means that PHP is not installed in the web server. Oh, and remember to name your files with .php suffix if that was the case 🙂

Orion1004

Still getting code, its a new computer and I dont have IIS or PWS installed, thinking that might be my problem. Installing IIS now seeing if that helps. Yes the .php suffix was attached, thanks 🙂

Orion1004

Ok, I've installed IIS and did the goofy little test to see if it works, but when I run the page I'm trying to look at, it still shows code. I've changed the php to reflect only what what you stated above but its shows that code now. Nothing else. How do I get it to show me anything?

cahva

Ok so youre developing the pages locally. I really dont know anything about IIS. The best thing to do is install WAMP which is dead easy to install and use. With that you get apache, php and mysql in the same package.

NogDog

Let's start with the obvious question, just in case: Is PHP installed on the computer and is the web-server you're running configured to send .php files to the PHP parser?

If the answer is "no" or "not sure" and you're not really interested in learning how to install everything manually, the the previous reply's suggestion of installing WAMP (or XAMPP if not on Windows) is probably the best solution to just get something up and running.