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Php Blank page on Load ?, When I try to load my page in any web browser it comes up blank !
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post 26 May, 2008 - 02:04 AM
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<!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>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
</head>

<body>

<?php
echo "Hello World";
?>

</body>
</html>



Ive just started in php, and the first prt did the echo command the problem is when I load the page [World icon --> Preview in IExplore/Firefox] is comes up a blank. Ive tried everything i can think of. If you could get back to me ASAP it'd be great. Tx
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post 26 May, 2008 - 02:11 AM
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What does it look like when you view the source. What I am thinking is your http server is not setup to parse php. The AddTypes are not added.

If it is saved as .html, try changing extension to .php and see if it works, a lot of installers will register .php as a application, but not .html
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Ok.
Ive tried that. The screen is blank when I view it as Html. When I renamed it and converted it into php.. the 'save file dialog' came up. Asking me to save my File !
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post 26 May, 2008 - 08:34 AM
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that means that PHP is not running on your computer...

as to how to get PHP on the comp, idk, as I use a web server directly...
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post 26 May, 2008 - 10:09 AM
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use WAMP.
It can setup apache, mysql, and php on Yours windows computer.
20 megabytes.
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post 26 May, 2008 - 02:43 PM
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use WAMP.
It can setup apache, mysql, and php on Yours windows computer.
20 megabytes.


Also, when using WAMP it does not setup short tags by default. if you want to use <? ?> instead of <?php ?> you'll need to turn short_open_tag = 'On' in your php.ini file. Otherwise you'll just run into the same problem you're having now.
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I use <?php ?> anyway .. Thanks guys the wamp thing shud solve it i have installed PHP before but it didnt work properly, and i was using IIS for a server.. no MYSQL was installed.


--- Still No change =(|

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post 26 May, 2008 - 03:30 PM
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I use <?php ?> anyway .. Thanks guys the wamp thing shud solve it i have installed PHP before but it didnt work properly, and i was using IIS for a server.. no MYSQL was installed.


No problems. Most people will use <?php ?>, but you may end up wanting to use <?= ?> to just echo out a variable. In that case you'll need short_open_tag = 'On'. You might want to turn it on just to alleviate future pains. Glad you're getting everything fixed.
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post 26 May, 2008 - 04:22 PM
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i would suggest getting rid of all of the HTML and seeing if it works then.... the PHP statement is correct....
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If it is asking you to download the php file, this means '.php' is not setup correctly in your configuration. If you use apache, add this to your httpd.conf
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AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .html


If you are using IIS, then google a guide for installing php on iis, you have to set iis to use the php interpreter for php files.

Also, I find that the Zend Core install is very efficient for dev setups on local machines.

Also a little sample code that can distinguish between php issue vs server issue is the following

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Hello <?php echo "World"; ?>


If only hello shows up, its a php issue, if hello world shows up, you have a successful php install.
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post 27 May, 2008 - 11:56 AM
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Its still asking me to download it.. Both ways. So i cant check if youre theory is correct joeyadms
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post 28 May, 2008 - 03:31 PM
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if it is asking you to download it, either way, it is because of your configuration.

You need to add the the AddType declaration, to have it parse php files, and not treat them as binary.
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