Your first PHP-enabled page
<html>
<head>
<title>PHP Test</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>Hello World</p>
</body>
</html>
Note that this is not like a CGI script. The file does not
need to be executable or special in any way. Think of it
as a normal HTML file which happens to have a set of special
tags available to you that do a lot of interesting things.
This program is extremely simple and you really did not
need to use PHP to create a page like this. All it does
is display: Hello World using the PHP echo() statement.
If you tried this example and it did not output anything,
it prompted for download, or you see the whole file as text,
chances are that the server you are on does not have PHP
enabled. Ask your administrator to enable it for you using
the Installation chapter of the manual. If you are developing
locally, also read the installation chapter to make sure
everything is configured properly. If the problems persist,
do not hesitate to use one of the many PHP support options.
The point of the example is to show the special PHP tag
format. In this example we used <?php to indicate the
start of a PHP tag. Then we put the PHP statement and left
PHP mode by adding the closing tag, ?>. You may jump
in and out of PHP mode in an HTML file like this all you
want. For more details, read the manual section on basic
PHP syntax.
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