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Re: Stuck on Exercise 1 [message #178661 is a reply to message #178640]

Mon, 16 July 2012 12:24

Arno Welzel
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Am 15.07.2012 14:16, schrieb The Natural Philosopher:

> tim(dot)whittingham(at)googlemail(dot)com wrote:
>> To my great embarassment. Came away with a copy of PHP5 & MySQL Bible
>> thinking to do a couple of hours study every day of my hols with a
>> view to learning a little elementary PHP to assist me with my CMS
>> website work. Read through the first couple of Chapters until I came
>> to Chapter 4 and 'Your First PHP Program 'Hello World'' in which I am
>> instructed to type
>> <HTML>
>> <HEAD>
>> <TITLE>My first PHP program</TITLE>
>> </HEAD>
>> <BODY>
>> <?php
>> print(“Hello, cruel world<BR><BR>\n”);
>> phpinfo();
>> ?>
>> </BODY>
>> </HTML>
>>
>> Saved as .html and viewed with Wampserver I got nothing
>> but

Why do you expect, that ".html" is interpreted as PHP script? Of course
it should be saved as ".php".

>> \n”); phpinfo(); ?>
>> on the resulting page. Copied and pasted in case of typos, same
>> result. Installed EasyPHP and got the same result. Uploaded file to
>> webserver and viewed it on the web:
>> \n”); phpinfo(); ?>
>> on its own and nothing but.
>>
>> Humph. So, Help please.
>>
>> Tim W
>
> AFAIK all php programs MUST start with <?php even if they are
> immediately reverted to text with ?>

No.

>
> So try
>
> <?php ?>
>
> as the first line.

No - this is not neccessary and no it does not make the webserver
believe it should forward HTML files to PHP. See above - the extension
is the key - ".php" and not ".html".

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		Stuck on Exercise 1 By: tim.whittingham on Sun, 15 July 2012 12:03
		Re: Stuck on Exercise 1 By: The Natural Philosoph on Sun, 15 July 2012 12:16
		Re: Stuck on Exercise 1 By: Christoph Becker on Sun, 15 July 2012 12:42
		Re: Stuck on Exercise 1 By: The Natural Philosoph on Sun, 15 July 2012 12:49
		Re: Stuck on Exercise 1 By: Tim Streater on Sun, 15 July 2012 14:24
		Re: Stuck on Exercise 1 By: The Natural Philosoph on Sun, 15 July 2012 20:38
		Re: Stuck on Exercise 1 By: Jerry Stuckle on Sun, 15 July 2012 13:37
		Re: Stuck on Exercise 1 By: Tim Streater on Sun, 15 July 2012 14:19
		Re: Stuck on Exercise 1 By: Arno Welzel on Mon, 16 July 2012 12:24
		Re: Stuck on Exercise 1 By: Shake on Sun, 15 July 2012 13:28
		Re: Stuck on Exercise 1 By: tim.whittingham on Sun, 15 July 2012 14:07
		Re: Stuck on Exercise 1 By: Thomas 'PointedEars' on Sun, 15 July 2012 14:18
		Re: Stuck on Exercise 1 By: J.O. Aho on Sun, 15 July 2012 14:06

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