Re: Re: Continuance of the struggle (trying to understand)

"If I paste the script into a web page" What do you mean by "paste the script into a web page"? Can you tell us exactly what you are doing when you do that? Chris. On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 7:54 AM, Col Day <colinday3@aol.com> wrote: > Hi Shreyas, > > Ok, as far as I can tell the script should show "This is an HTML line" > reflecting that I am seeing the HTML part of the script followed by "This is > a PHP line" to show that PHP is installed and working fine. > > If I view the script directly in IE by going to > http://localhost/phptest.php I get the output: > > > This is an HTML line > > This is a PHP line > > followed by a large and detailed list of the PHP install which includes > things like compiler language etc. > > If I paste the script into a web page then all that is displayed is > > This is an HTML line. > > Nothing else whatsoever. > > I am fairly confused. I've tried a couple of different web page creators > (Webplus 10 and Web page maker) and get the same result. > > Sorry if I sound extremely naive but it's bugging me now and I want to > understand. > > Cheers > > "Shreyas Agasthya" <shreyasbr@gmail.com> wrote in message > > news:AANLkTi=4ke1sTf8TaN7+EcJO-UX5CJ=t9-0qcTCFkx0+@mail.gmail.com... > > Col, >> >> Can you let us know what exactly you see when you say >> http://localhost:/phptest.php >> ? >> >> >> Regards, >> Shreyas >> >> On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 4:20 PM, Col Day <colinday3@aol.com> wrote: >> >> >>> ""Col Day"" <colinday3@aol.com> wrote in message >>> news:23.81.45586.2820BAC4@pb1.pair.com... >>> >>> Hi all, >>> >>>> >>>> After my escapades with the real basics and realizing my laptop wasn't >>>> logged on as Administrator, I now am trying to work out why this script >>>> works sometimes but not others. >>>> >>>> <html> >>>> <head> >>>> <title>PHP Test</title> >>>> </head> >>>> <body> >>>> <p>This is an HTML line >>>> <?php >>>> echo "<p>This is a PHP line</p>"; >>>> phpinfo(); >>>> ?> >>>> </body> >>>> </html> >>>> >>>> If I save this as phptest.php and open IE pointing it to >>>> localhost/phptest.php it works fine. Get both lines of text followed by >>>> the >>>> pages of gumpf about php. >>>> >>>> However if I paste this into a >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> That was weird! >>> >>> I was saying, If I paste this into a webpage I only get the "HTML" line >>> as >>> before. >>> >>> Anyone have any ideas? >>> >>> PHP is obviously working as is apache. Just don't understand why they >>> don't >>> show up in web pages. >>> >>> Cheers again all! >>> >>> -- >>> PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) >>> To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >>> >>> >>> >> >> -- >> Regards, >> Shreyas Agasthya >> >> > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >