Re: php blank page problem

Hi Shawn, Our beginner tutorial already notes this (plus more about file name extensions): http://www.php.net/manual/en/tutorial.firstpage.php Regards, Gabor Hojtsy > I have noticed many forums on the internet where users seem to be mystified by the blank php > page that shows up when they test the following code (or any php code mixed with HTML); > > <html> > <head> > <title>Test PHP</title> > </head> > > <body> > <?php > phpinfo ( ); > ?> > > </body> > </html> > > The blank PHP pages are occurring because the users are attempting to write their code using an > some editor that is not coding in plain text. The users are coding in text that contains HTML > itself. WordPad was giving me this trouble. Once I copied and pasted my code written in WordPad > (incorporates HTML features into text) into NotePad (strictly plain text) and WALLAH... when I > accessed my phpinfo test page I no longer saw a blank page. Before I used notepad, when I would > "view source" while visiting the blank web page I would see the following sorta tags and > HTML; > > <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> > <HTML><HEAD> > <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; > charset=iso-8859-1"></HEAD> > <BODY></BODY></HTML> > > If you wish to use WordPad, then you must save the file as a text document (.txt) instead of > the default RichText format which allows the use of HTML formatting behind the scenes. > > Sincerely, > Shawn Englerth >