In our last episode,
<11**********************@o11g2000prd.googlegroups .com>, the lovely and
talented rhXX broadcast on comp.lang.php:
hi,
i need to begin in php. is there any tutorial to begin? (i started an
hour ago .....)
i copied this first example
><html>
<head>
<titleHello World </title>
</head>
<body>
Hello, world!
><?php
echo 'This is my first PHP web page.';
?>
></body>
</html>
and saved as .html file, and when i open it with the browser, it
appears only the html part, but not php ....
tks in advance
Browsers should ignore stuff in angle brackets that cannot be identified as
HTML elements. And php is not HTML. PHP is a preprocessor language (among
other things). See: "pre" + "processor." Something has to process it. That
something can be a web SERVER (not a browser) if the server has a php module
and is properly configured. Or it can be php at the command line. You
don't really have an .html document. It is a .php document. It is the
processing that changes it into html that can be rendered by browsers. I am
pretty sure some browsers can be configured to use php (if it is installed)
to preprocess a document before it renders it, but that will often require a
dummy server environment and the browser will have to know the document is
supposed to be php, which it won't when it views the document as a file and
the extension is not .php.
1) Have you installed php on your system?
2) Do you have a web server with a php module?
If the answer is no to both questions, then you are not in the php business.
If 1) is yes, I suggest you start reading the documentation that came with
it.
If you just want to see what is in the document, use view source in your
browser.
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