I think i am going crazy

[chris]

i have made a file called blah.php containing

<?php print "<b>this is a test " ?>


i open the page in a browser and i see a blank page

i view the source of the page in the browser and i see

<?php print "<b>this is a test " ?>


this shouldnt be happening

i have got php installed on the server and other php aplications are working
fine - am i loosing the plot ??

TIA

[Marcel]

"chris" <asda@godknows.com> schreef in bericht
news:3f7401d6$1@funnel.arach.net.au...

> i have made a file called blah.php containing
>
> <?php print "<b>this is a test " ?>
>
>
> i open the page in a browser and i see a blank page
>
> i view the source of the page in the browser and i see
>
> <?php print "<b>this is a test " ?>
>
>
> this shouldnt be happening
>
> i have got php installed on the server and other php aplications are

working

> fine - am i loosing the plot ??
>
> TIA
>
>

Although your code isn't wellformed, it works at my server however so i
think the must be a malconfiguration of PHP somewehere.

<?php print "<b>this is a test</b>"; ?>

Marcel

[Benjamin Morel]

Maybe your server is configured to consider only .php3 files as PHP files.
Check it.

"Marcel" <neegeenspam@hotentottententententoonstellingen.nl > a écrit dans le
message de news:3f74167c$0$5772$edd6591c@news.versatel.net...

>
> "chris" <asda@godknows.com> schreef in bericht
> news:3f7401d6$1@funnel.arach.net.au...

> > i have made a file called blah.php containing
> >
> > <?php print "<b>this is a test " ?>
> >
> >
> > i open the page in a browser and i see a blank page
> >
> > i view the source of the page in the browser and i see
> >
> > <?php print "<b>this is a test " ?>
> >
> >
> > this shouldnt be happening
> >
> > i have got php installed on the server and other php aplications are

> working

> > fine - am i loosing the plot ??
> >
> > TIA
> >
> >

>
> Although your code isn't wellformed, it works at my server however so i
> think the must be a malconfiguration of PHP somewehere.
>
> <?php print "<b>this is a test</b>"; ?>
>
> Marcel
>
>

[PhilM]

"Benjamin Morel" <virtua@nerim.fr> wrote in message
news:bl1u13$2qlm$1@biggoron.nerim.net...

> Maybe your server is configured to consider only .php3 files as PHP files.
> Check it.
>
> "Marcel" <neegeenspam@hotentottententententoonstellingen.nl > a écrit dans

le

> message de news:3f74167c$0$5772$edd6591c@news.versatel.net...

> >
> > "chris" <asda@godknows.com> schreef in bericht
> > news:3f7401d6$1@funnel.arach.net.au...

> > > i have made a file called blah.php containing
> > >
> > > <?php print "<b>this is a test " ?>
> > >
> > >
> > > i open the page in a browser and i see a blank page
> > >
> > > i view the source of the page in the browser and i see
> > >
> > > <?php print "<b>this is a test " ?>
> > >
> > >
> > > this shouldnt be happening
> > >
> > > i have got php installed on the server and other php aplications are

> > working

> > > fine - am i loosing the plot ??
> > >
> > > TIA
> > >
> > >

> >
> > Although your code isn't wellformed, it works at my server however so i
> > think the must be a malconfiguration of PHP somewehere.
> >
> > <?php print "<b>this is a test</b>"; ?>
> >
> > Marcel
> >

Also check to make sure you have correct setting for short tags.
ie <? as opposed to <?php
(if short tags option is set, long tags will be ignored. If you change this
setting, short tags will be parsed, but all the shorthand will throw errors.
That is unless something has changed recently)


PhilM

[John Dunlop]

PhilM wrote:

> > Marcel wrote:
> >

> > > chris wrote:
> > >
> > > > <?php print "<b>this is a test " ?>
> > >
> > > Although your code isn't wellformed

I can't see anything syntactically incorrect with the PHP. And
indeed, full error reporting notifies us that there are no
syntactical mistakes.

> (if short tags option is set, long tags will be ignored. [...]

No. The character sequence "<?php" is recognised as starting a
block of code, regardless of the short_open_tag setting. See:
[url]http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.basic-syntax.php[/url]

In a nutshell: avoid short tags.

--
Jock