PHP not rendering

Anon

obviously and admittedly a newbie to this world. A buddy of mine got me interested and has inspired and motivated me to dive in. I've been a legacy programmer for a LONG time but the "web" world has me reeling. I cannot get PHP to render on my pages at all. the HTML displays fine but none of the code does. My friend originally recomended PHP3. I came to phpbuilder and found PHP4 to be available ... is there a difference other than the obvious? Should I find PHP3? I included both .php3 and .php4 extensions and tried it both ways - nada!

any help is appreciated

Anon

I would first check to see if PHP is installed and functioning. I do this by creating a page with only one line in it with the phpinfo() function.

This is one quick way to make sure PHP is installed and functioning and also a good way to learn more about your system. The whole line is simply...

<? phpinfo(); ?>

It sounds like you might not have the server configured though to recognize your file extensions (".php3 or .php4"). Are you running apache, or IIs, Xitami??

Anon

Another PHP newbie here 🙂

Just got finished configuring PHP4 and Apache....

The default extension for PHP 4 in Apache is .PHP, maybe that's how yours is set up? If it's a local *nix system, check the AddType= entry for PHP in httpd.conf. If it's on an ISP, call tech support and ask what extension you need to use. Any other OS...well...anyone?

Anon

What do you mean "not rendering"?

What errors are you seeing? What are you trying to code?

Anon

Thanks to all who responded ... the jury is in, I'm just too dumb to be trying this stuff. I'm using pws and I didn't have it set up to execute correctly. By simply going to the advanced features and putting a check mark in the "execute" box - bada bing bada boom, all is good.