Help a PHP newbie

tuxfan · 22-07-2005, 01:22 PM

Here's the code of a .php file

Code:

<html>
<head></head>
<body>


This is before SCRIPT LANGUAGE="PHP" tag starts

<script language="PHP">
  echo("If you can see this, PHP is working with SCRIPT LANGUAGE=\"PHP\" tag");
</script>

This is after SCRIPT LANGUAGE="PHP" tag ends





This is before usual PHP tag starts

<?php
  echo("If you can see this, PHP is working with usual \"<?php ?>\" tag");
?>

This is after usual PHP tag ends
</body>
</html>

Here's the output. Notice the output of 2nd block, 2nd line.

Code:

This is before SCRIPT LANGUAGE="PHP" tag starts
If you can see this, PHP is working with SCRIPT LANGUAGE="PHP" tag
This is after SCRIPT LANGUAGE="PHP" tag ends

This is before usual PHP tag starts
If you can see this, PHP is working with usual "" tag
This is after usual PHP tag ends

I know the problem. Here's the html source code that the browser receives.

Code:

<html>
<head></head>
<body>

This is before SCRIPT LANGUAGE="PHP" tag starts

If you can see this, PHP is working with SCRIPT LANGUAGE="PHP" tag
This is after SCRIPT LANGUAGE="PHP" tag ends





This is before usual PHP tag starts

If you can see this, PHP is working with usual "<?php ?>" tag
This is after usual PHP tag ends
</body>
</html>

I know why this happens. How to display <?php ?> in the browser?

Studying the source of this page gives the following way. Is there no other way?

Code:

&lt;?php ?&gt;

22-07-2005, 02:47 PM

try using \ in creative ways

to cancel the < or the ?

and see how it works out

alib_i · 22-07-2005, 02:48 PM

hmmm .. nice !

anything the browser gets inside <? and > is treated as some script .. and not displayed by browser.

its not a problem with php, its the way browser displayes text.

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alibi