Posted by alice on 12/16/06 03:07

I'm just starting to learn php, and here's the code from a book I'm
reading -
The time is
<?php echo date(H:i:s');?>
and the date is
<?php echo date(j F Y');?>

I typed it in an editor called Notepad++, FTP'd it using ASCII onto an
ISP that I know has Apache/MySQL/PHP installed and working. But when I
go to the URL http://www.fearofdolls.com/time.php I get the error Parse
error: parse error, unexpected ':' in
/home/fearofdo/public_html/time.php on line 2.
What am I doing wrong?
This is the second time this happened to me- my first test code had a
similar problem, and that's when I switched to a non-MS notepad editor
so it would save it correctly, but this time I can't figure out what's
going wrong. It seems that php is very difficult to get to work.

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