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Daviepark
Daviepark

Reputation: 65

PHP files not displaying

I am trying to display my php files but all I seem to get is the source code. I am running mac 10.7.5 I have installed MAMP and added a file (test.php) to the htdocs folder. I have turned the apache server on.

the code in the file is 

<html>
  <head>
    <title>:-)</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <?php
      echo "<p>Hello, world. I'm a php file.</p>";
     ?>
  </body>
</html>

and when I point my browser (chrome) to this file it shows the source code exactly as above.

Any help would be great!

Thanks.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 3612

Answers (1)

James P.
James P.

Reputation: 19617

The issue is that you're accessing the script using the file protocol. I guessed as much as I've hit the snag more than once after some late night coding :) .

Try accessing it using the address such as http://localhost/yourfolder/test.php. The part after localhost is relative to htdocs. If MAMP is up and running this will trigger an HTTP request to Apache and get PHP to interpret the file.

Upvotes: 3

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