help with ¨hello world¨

dlusionz

Hi, im attempting to learn php with lynda.com´s videos and everything was going great, i got the <?php phpinfo(); ?> to work but then the hello world example came and I thought I did it right until the output gave me an error, heres my php code and the output

<html>
	<head>
		<title>Hello World!</title>
		</head>
		<body>
		<?php echo ¨Hello World!¨; ?>
		</body>
</html>

and my output is

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting ',' or ';' in /home/dlusionz/public_html/php/hello.php on line 6

im not sure what to do, I realize that its looking for ¨,¨ or ¨;¨ but i did include it, so im confused, I hope someone can assist me with this

NogDog

Unless my eyes are too tired, it looks like you nave non-standard quote characters in your code.

<?php echo ¨Hello World!¨; ?>

...should be...

<?php echo "Hello World!"; ?>

Make sure you are using a text editor designed for source code editing, as opposed to a word processor that might use some sort of "smart quotes" feature or such.

dlusionz

thanks for the quick reply

im using ¨coda¨ it seems like a decent one for the task, I also tried ¨textmate¨

I live in Mexico and bought my mac there, and my keyboard layout is in spanish as well as my language settings for input, its set to ¨Spanish - ISO¨
im not sure if that has something to do with it, but I´m guessing that it could, but im not sure what to so it works better in case that it is the case

does anyone here know?

thanks in advance

NogDog

Looks like it's your computer/keyboard set-up as you guessed, based on the quotes I see in your last post. As an ignorant American with a US-English set-up on a Windows PC, I'm afraid I'm about the last person in the world to know what the simplest solution would be for you. 🙁

zekemorgan

dlusionz;10954657 wrote:
thanks for the quick reply

im using ¨coda¨ it seems like a decent one for the task, I also tried ¨textmate¨

I live in Mexico and bought my mac there, and my keyboard layout is in spanish as well as my language settings for input, its set to ¨Spanish - ISO¨
im not sure if that has something to do with it, but I´m guessing that it could, but im not sure what to so it works better in case that it is the case

does anyone here know?

thanks in advance

I would look at Changing Mac Keyboard Language Settings and see if the instructions there help!

dlusionz

thanks!, i found the other quotes and im using them now, just need to get used to them