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Re: Stuck on Exercise 1 [message #178640 is a reply to message #178639]

Sun, 15 July 2012 12:16

The Natural Philosoph
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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
>
> \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 ?>

So try

<?php ?>

as the first line.

>
>

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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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