Apache2Triad Help, Support and Development

ksimmons · Joined: 08 Oct 2006 Posts: 4

I'm new to PHP and did a default installation on Windows XP and everything seems to be running.

The book I'm using to learn PHP instructs the reader to use the following code as index.html

Code:
<HTML>
<HEAD>
 <TITLE>PHP Testing</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
 <?php
 echo “If this works, we really did it!”;
 ?>
</BODY>
</HTML>

When I go to localhost in my web browser I get this:

Quote: really did it!”; ?>

Is there an error in the book's text or is this an installation problem?

Thanks.

Vlad Alexa Mancini · Joined: 07 Jul 2003 Posts: 1538

.html files are not usually parsed with php , and apache2triad setup makes no exception.

ksimmons · Joined: 08 Oct 2006 Posts: 4

Vlad Alexa Mancini wrote: .html files are not usually parsed with php , and apache2triad setup makes no exception.

Well, as I said, I was following directions in a book about PHP

Does your answer mean that the code is correct?

Joshua Meadows (DemoRic) · Joined: 29 Dec 2004 Posts: 785 Location: S.E. Kansas

Quote: Does your answer mean that the code is correct?
Code: <HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>PHP Testing</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<?php
echo "If this works, we really did it!";
?>
</BODY>
</HTML>

Save it with a .php extension and place it in your htdocs folder.
Then access it by
http://localhost/yourFilename.php
You should be pleased with the answer to your question.

ksimmons · Joined: 08 Oct 2006 Posts: 4

Quote: Save it with a .php extension and place it in your htdocs folder.
Then access it by
http://localhost/yourFilename.php
You should be pleased with the answer to your question.

Now I get a blank page.

Joshua Meadows (DemoRic) · Joined: 29 Dec 2004 Posts: 785 Location: S.E. Kansas

Code: echo "If this works, we really did it!";
Your quotation marks aren't correct. Use that line instead.
Note: it's best to use notepad, or a similiar plain text editor for coding. I like EditPlus http://www.editplus.com/ but there are many out there.

To find out where your error may be see your error logs, or you can enable error reporting.

http://apache2triad.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=4611&highlight=display+php+errors
touches on it.

ksimmons · Joined: 08 Oct 2006 Posts: 4

Quote: To find out where your error may be see your error logs, or you can enable error reporting.

http://apache2triad.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=4611&highlight=display+php+errors
touches on it.[/quote]

I get this error:

Quote: PHP Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting ',' or ';' in C:\apache2triad\htdocs\index.php on line 7

As you can see from my previous messages, I ended line seven with a semicolon

Vlad Alexa Mancini · Joined: 07 Jul 2003 Posts: 1538

joshua allready told you about the quotation