Re: Newbee in php ...........Please help!!!

""Vinod"" <vinod@indokorea.net> wrote in message news:004501bfe24f$05ad4b00$0900a8c0@ik.com... > Hi everybody, > > I HAVE SET UP APACHE AND PHP3 ON WIN 2000 .But i get the following errors: > > {\rtf1\ansi\deff0{\fonttbl{\f0\fnil\fcharset0 Courier New;}} > \viewkind4\uc1\pard\lang1033\f0\fs20 \par \par \par \tab > Warning: Unexpected character in input: '\' (ASCII=92) state=1 in C:/Program > Files/Apache Group/Apache/htdocs/testphp1.php3 on line 5 Are you creating your PHP file in Word or Wordpad? Use Notepad, or get a better editor (I use HomeSite from www.allaire.com and love it). All that {\rtf1 ... stuff is Rich Text Document file format markup ... it has no place in an HTML or PHP file. > Its just a simple "HELLO WORLD" PHP FILE. > I have placed the PHP FILES in htdocs dir. of Apache:?Is this correct? htdocs can work, but you're supposed to create your own directory (in your home directory) and use that. At least under *nix, that's how it works. Don't know how that works on Windows 2000. -- O.