PHP ? am a newbie in php programming and i have this problem

Question

I open the macromedia and select php, when i paste the following code <?php

echo "Hello, world!";

?>

between body> it does not display the hello world, instead , it displays an icon showing php only in design view . what the problem ?

Answer 1

Hey,

I remember this problem years ago, back of course when I first touched PHP, or any server-side scripting language.

That&#039;s exactly it, it&#039;s a server-side scripting language, which means you need to have this website on a server that has Apache, which is a php compiling solution!

Watch this video, it&#039;ll guide you through a tutorial on how to install Apache on ur computer instead of using a server!

Hope this helps. Let me know if there&#039;s anything else

Thanks,

Abdurrahman Qadan

Video:

http://www.killerphp.com/videos/getting_...

Answer 2

get notepad ++

Answer 3

Maybe, you should try some simple hand-coded php outside of Macromedia.

I like to upload my php files to my web-hosting service and test them just once where they are going to be run.  You could setup php on your client computer and run from there, but I decided to just upload my php files to my web-hosting service and test them under the actual conditions that they would be running in.

Remember to change your file extensions from .htm or .html to be .php

Answer 4

maybe you forgot the &quot;:&quot;

echo:

Answer 5

Macromedia Dreamweaver can&#039;t execute server side php code so it just displays the ? to represent where it is in your HTML. When you upload this to a web server and display it your should see &quot;Hello, world!&quot;.