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Posted by alice on 11/22/06 02:17
Dave Pyles wrote:
> On 11/21/2006 7:37 PM, alice@fearofdolls.com wrote:
> > I'm just learning php, and one of the first things in the book I'm
> > reading has me make this file-
> > <html>
> > <head>
> > <title>PHP Test</title>
> > </head>
> > <body>
> > <p>This is an HTML line
> > <p>
> > <?php
> > echo "This is a PHP line";
> > Phpinfo();
> > ?>
> > </body>
> > </html>
> >
> > I typed in in Notepad, saved it as test.php, ftp it to my ISP, then
> > viewed in a browser and got the following error-
> > Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting ',' or ';' in
> > /home/fearofdo/public_html/test2.php on line 9
> >
> > I asked my ISP if php/mysql was installed and turned on and configured
> > correctly, they said yes and that my code was wrong, that it had <93>
> > and <94> where there should have been quotes, so they changed it and
> > now it works, creating the proper display.
> >
> > This is all very odd to me...when I look at the original file that my
> > ISP said they corrected, there are now double quotes around the line
> > This is a PHP line. I created a new file from scratch, made sure it had
> > quotes, uploaded it and what do you know, I get the error message
> > again. When I view the file/code from my FTP client, it shows the
> > quotes, absolutely the correct code, so why is it not working?
> >
> > I guess my question is, what the heck is happening? I'm not even sure
> > where to begin...how and why is the code getting changed, and if it is
> > getting changed, why does it not look to me like it has changed, and
> > why the <93>...where does that come from? How do I prevent this?
> >
> Try writing your file like this:
>
> <!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=iso-8859-1" />
> <title>First PHP Script</title>
> </head>
> <body>
> <?php
> phpinfo();
> ?>
> </body>
> </html>
>
> That should return the PHP Info page.
>
I could do that, but that's not really the issue, the issue is, why is
what I'm doing not working in the first place, according to the book it
should work, and if it's not I don't really know how to proceed. This
is very discouraging for someone just trying to learn how to use PHP
and other web technology.
> Dave Pyles
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