PHP not working / XAMPP installed

Anachron · Mar 22, 2008

Hello there. I have downloaded XAMPP and installed it. I am using PSPAD (www.pspad.com/de) with making hyper transport text protocolls(Http pages) and I have problems with PHP. The html files work correctly, but when I am using PHP in my HTML files or when I craete PHP files it doesn't work anything. I am pro at making PHP and html etc. files so I don't know what I did wrong. Can't be a noob mistake. Please help!

Edit: At home it works, I have an router, on this PC I only have modem,
the test programm was "test.php" and when I write "<? echo "Test"; ?>" no error log comes up and nothing happens at all, simply that the text is shown as a html text on the side?!

enouwee · Mar 22, 2008

Pro hmmm?

Mind providing any further details, like a better problem description, error logs, scripts you're writing.

Anachron · Mar 22, 2008

I added some things.

enouwee · Mar 22, 2008

What's the output of:

PHP:

<?php phpinfo(); ?>

Are you sure your HTTP server is configured to process PHP pages?

Anachron · Mar 22, 2008

Components
Status
Hints
MySQL-Database ACTIVATED
PHP ACTIVATED
HTTPS (SSL) ACTIVATED
Common Gateway Interface (CGI) ACTIVATED
Server Side Includes (SSI) ACTIVATED
SMTP Server DEACTIVATED
FTP Server DEACTIVATED

System Windows NT CARO-94T2DS1087 5.1 build 2600
Build Date Nov 8 2007 23:18:08
Configure Command cscript /nologo configure.js "--enable-snapshot-build" "--with-gd=shared"
Server API Apache 2.0 Handler
Virtual Directory Support enabled
Configuration File (php.ini) Path C:\WINDOWS
Loaded Configuration File C:\xampp\apache\bin\php.ini
PHP API 20041225
PHP Extension 20060613
Zend Extension 220060519
Debug Build no
Thread Safety enabled
Zend Memory Manager enabled
IPv6 Support enabled
Registered PHP Streams php, file, data, http, ftp, compress.zlib, zip
Registered Stream Socket Transports tcp, udp
Registered Stream Filters convert.iconv.*, string.rot13, string.toupper, string.tolower, string.strip_tags, convert.*, consumed, zlib.*

enouwee · Mar 22, 2008

So it behaves the way it should. Are you sure there are no syntax errors in your scripts...?

Note that you should use <?php ... ?> and not <? ... ?>
Short-hand tags will try to interpret <?xml ... ?> which will end up in a big mess.

Anachron · Mar 22, 2008

PHP:

TEST1
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
  <head>
  <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1250">
  <meta name="generator" content="PSPad editor, www.pspad.com">
  <title></title>
  </head>
  <body>
       <form method="post" action="TEST2.html">
       <br> TEST <br>
       <input type="hidden" name="url" value=<?php echo $_SERVER["PHP_SELF"] ?>
       <input type="submit" name="continue" value="Continue>">
       </form>
  </body>
</html>

PHP:

TEST2
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
  <head>
  <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1250">
  <meta name="generator" content="PSPad editor, www.pspad.com">
  <title></title>
  </head>
  <body>
<?php
$url=$_POST["url"];
echo $url;
echo "TEST2";
?>
  </body>
</html>

enouwee · Mar 22, 2008

What about using .php instead of .html ?

Anachron · Mar 22, 2008

PHP:

/TEST1.phpTEST2

is the thing that comes up then.

enouwee · Mar 22, 2008

So it works. Where's the problem?

Anachron · Mar 22, 2008

PHP doesn't work when I have a HTML file, but at home I can have a HTML file witH PHP functions and it works there, too!

enouwee · Mar 22, 2008

It'd suggest you learn how to configure your webserver.

Interpreting .html files using PHP isn't default behaviour. You have to add it yourself.

Anachron · Mar 22, 2008

Ok how can I change that?

enouwee · Mar 22, 2008

First, you read the documentation and then you go through the configuration file, locate the entry that defines the PHP handler for .php files and add the same one for .html

Anachron · Mar 22, 2008

Sorry I didn't got it. Also at home pc I installed it like I have on this pc but it works better on home pc :S

Rad · Mar 22, 2008

dhk_undead_l said:

There is no ending angle bracket there.

Also, you are accessing the page from localhost/test1.php right?

It wont work simply opening the file, it must be an html request.

In order to show the page correctly after you type localhost, you must have port 80 forwarded. This will cause trouble at school/work etc.

In order to parse HTML files using PHP: http://www.desilva.biz/php/phpinhtml.html

Anachron · Mar 22, 2008

PHP:

<input type="hidden" name="url" value=<?php echo $_SERVER["PHP_SELF"] ?>

Well this does not need a braket at end. When I do it there is one > in the input line.

Also I tested it and it didn't work :S

enouwee · Mar 22, 2008

Semi-colon, not bracket. It's optional, thou recommended.

Setting the handler will work, as I mentionned above. I really suggest you study the documentation of the Apache webserver as well as the PHP one for your platform.

Begging for help by merely saying "it does not work" will get you nowhere.

Anachron · Mar 22, 2008

I wrote those but definitly I didn't find any solution to my problem after 3 hours of searching in the documentations.. <.<

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