Re: PHP not being read?

If you put the php file on a live server, does the bad computer still not display? Just narrowing down. :) Karl Sent from losPhone On Apr 24, 2010, at 10:00 PM, "Gary" <gwp@paulgdesigns.com> wrote:

Karl On the laptop, the original machine, it has Vista, Firefox 3.6.3. Previewing on testing server Apache (XAMPP )on the computer, not network On the tower, it is running XP Pro, Firefox 3.6.3. Previewing on local testing server. "Karl DeSaulniers" <karl@designdrumm.com> wrote in message news:C06C982A-1734-4249-9BF7-7BF33BFC4C24@designdrumm.com...

What is the browser and browser version your using on the bad computer? What OS? Are you previewing the file on the computer or from a server? Karl On Apr 24, 2010, at 8:30 PM, Gary wrote:

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;

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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

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