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Re: PHP Runs In WinXP Command Window But Not In Browser [message #173343 is a reply to message #173340] Mon, 04 April 2011 01:54 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
Jerry Stuckle is currently offline  Jerry Stuckle
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On 4/3/2011 9:36 PM, Peter Lauren wrote:
> On Apr 3, 8:03 am, Luuk<L...@invalid.lan> wrote:
>> On 03-04-2011 13:54, Peter Lauren wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>> I am using Windows XP have installed WAMP and PHP as outlined here
>>> http://www.wampserver.com/en/
>>> and have set my search path so that I need only type
>>> php -f PHPExamples.php
>>> and the PHP code runs fine. However, I have not managed to get it to
>>> run in my FireFox/3.5.9 browser. When I make a simple file with the
>>> following contents
>>> <html>
>>> <body>
>>
>>> <?php
>>> $txt1="Hello World!";
>>> $txt2="What a nice day!";
>>
>>> echo $txt1 . " " . $txt2 . " " . strlen("Hello world!") . " " .
>>> strpos("Hello world!","world");
>>> ?>
>>
>>> </body>
>>> </html>
>>
>>> name it Examples.php and call it with a button thus
>>> <a href="Examples.php">PHP</a>
>>
>>> I just get a blank page.
>>
>>> I would be grateful if someone could tell me what I am doing wrong.
>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Peter.
>>
>> how are you looking into this page?
>>
>> what happens if you point browser to:http://localhost/Examples.php
>>
>> --
>> Luuk
>
> I get "Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at
> localhost."
>

Before you can display a the output from the PHP script, you need to be
able to connect to the server.

> I don't think there's a problem accessing the file. It's just that it
> doesn't display anything on my browser.
>
> Thanks,
> Peter.


It won't, if you aren't accessing it through a web server (or the most
it would display is the source code for your script).

To get it to work, you MUST have a running web server and be able to
connect to that web server.

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