Re: debugging and getting output from php code embedded in html

I am also very green, maybe even teal... but i think i see your problem: both echo commands are inside the if statement... $conn = pg_Connect("host=localhost user=mcsauto dbname=mcsauto"); if (!$conn) { echo "Error !!!.\n"; } echo "No Error !!!.\n"; I think that would work... but I may be wrong too.... and there might be some errors in your connect string, but i know nothing about that :) ""James Purvins"" <purvinsj@voyager.net> wrote in message news:015001bfe83b$1fc23900$28dbcfa9@net... I am extremely green and just starting my php journey. how do i display output information in an HTML file for debugging purposes? currently, it seems all my "echo" commands in the html file do not display when i browse the file. where are these echo commands going? are they going to the great bit bucket in the sky??? how do i get them to display?? am i missing something really basic here? here is the code fragment ----> $conn = pg_Connect("host=localhost user=mcsauto dbname=mcsauto"); if (!$conn) { echo "Error !!!.\n"; echo "No Error !!!.\n" } ; in either case...success or failure...shouldn't i be getting a message when i browse the file? thank you for your patience....this list is really great!!! Jim Purvins