Re: PHP not being read?

Karl Thanks for your reply....that wasnt it. File was originated as a php file. So I have been playing with the experiment, and this is now the total code: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <style type="text/css"> body { font-size:20px; } </style> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <title>Time Experiment</title> </head> <form action="<?php echo $_SERVER['PHP_SELF'];?>" method="post"> I am <input name="age" type="text" /> years old.<br /><br /> <input name="submit" type="submit" value="submit" /><br /><br /> </form> <body> <?php $age=$_POST['age']; $seconds=1; $minutes=($seconds*60);//60 $hours=$minutes*60;//3600 $days=$hours*24;//86,400 //$days=$days; $months=$days*30;//2,592,000 $years=$months*12; $seconds_old=$years*$age; $seconds_old=number_format($seconds_old,0,'.',','); $years=number_format($years,0,'.',','); $days=number_format($days,0,'.',','); $months=number_format($months,0,'.',','); /*Interesting, when I had the number_format of days before the months, the math was wrong, it returned 2,592 turns out you must reverse the order of the second var for number_format*/ echo "There is $seconds in a second"; echo "<p>There are $minutes seconds in a minute.</p>"; echo "<p>There are $hours seconds in an hour.</p>"; echo "<p>There are $days seconds in a day.</p>"; echo "<p>There are $months seconds in a month.</p>"; echo "<p>There are $years seconds in a year.</p>"; echo "<p>You have lived about $seconds_old Seconds in your life</p>"; ?> </body> </html> And this code produces, on the good machine, the tower, this: I am years old. There is 1 in a second There are 60 seconds in a minute. There are 3600 seconds in an hour. There are 86,400 seconds in a day. There are 2,592,000 seconds in a month. There are 31,104,000 seconds in a year. You have lived about 0 Seconds in your life Same exact code that I just now sent over to the original "bad" machine, produces this: I am years old. There are $minutes seconds in a minute."; echo " There are $hours seconds in an hour. "; echo " There are $days seconds in a day. "; echo " There are $months seconds in a month. "; echo " There are $years seconds in a year. "; echo " You have lived about $seconds_old Seconds in your life "; ?> Same code, different machines, different results. Notice the closing ?> php tag is printed. Like I said, I dont know where to start to look. Thanks for your reply. Gary "Karl DeSaulniers" <karl@designdrumm.com> wrote in message news:5AEDFBF6-577B-44D8-9771-3CA1F79717AF@designdrumm.com... > Hi Gary, > It is probably because you have the file named .html and not .php. > > I took your code: > > <?php > $seconds=1; > echo $seconds; > ?> > > and put it an a .html and .php file and put it on my server. > With the.php file, I got a result of 1 > for the .html file I got a blank screen. > > HTH, > > Karl > > > On Apr 24, 2010, at 7:24 PM, Gary wrote: > >> Michiel >> >> Thank you for your reply, but that is not it. >> >> I took it down to >> <?php >> $seconds=1; >> echo $seconds; >> ?> >> >> Total code, and got nothing, blank screen. (this is just a silly >> exercise >> where I was going to input a date of birth and produce age in seconds) >> When >> I put the exact same code on my other machine, it showed numbers and >> calculations, most important, it showed something at all. >> >> This is an issue with configuration or settings somewhere, or perhaps my >> XAMPP is corrupt. >> >> Thank you for your reply. >> >> Gary >> >> >> "Michiel Sikma" <michiel@thingmajig.org> wrote in message >> >> news:y2s6cda1ded1004241703w90e8790ay46bb77c4e1162be1@mail.gmail.com... >>> On 25 April 2010 00:45, Gary <gwp@paulgdesigns.com> wrote: >>> >>>> What would cause a machine not to read/process php? >>>> >>>> I have a laptop that I have been ever increasing using for php >>>> scripting. >>>> I decided to do a simple experiment, it started out something like: >>>> >>>> $seconds=1; >>>> $minutes=$seconds*60; >>>> $hours=$minutes*60; >>>> $days="$hours*24; >>>> >>>> echo $seconds; >>>> echo $minutes; >>>> echo $hours; >>>> echo $days; >>> >>> -snip- >>>> >>>> >>> >>> A text editor with syntax highlighting would certainly help. There's a >>> double quote " right in front of the $hours variable on the fourth >>> line. >>> That's an unterminated string literal, a syntax error, which would >>> cause >>> PHP >>> to abort entirely. Your php's error log probably has a message in it to >>> this >>> extent. >>> >>> The reason why you got a number of different results is probably >>> because >>> you >>> added another double quote further down in later versions. >>> >>> But if that's somehow not it, post the entire source code of your file >>> on >>> a >>> site like http://pastie.org/ so we can have a closer >>> look. >>> >>> Michiel >>> >>> >>> >>> __________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus >>> signature database 5057 (20100424) __________ >>> >>> The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. >>> >>> http://www.eset.com >>> >>> >> >> >> >> __________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus >> signature database 5057 (20100424) __________ >> >> The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. >> >> http://www.eset.com >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) >> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >> > > Karl DeSaulniers > Design Drumm > http://designdrumm.com > > > __________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus > signature database 5057 (20100424) __________ > > The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. > > http://www.eset.com > > > __________ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 5057 (20100424) __________ The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. http://www.eset.com