well i have seen this type of problem many times in WAMP and what i do is to change short_open_tag = On ...by default it is Off. its an php.ini setting...hope this might help you.
Regards Gautam On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 9:13 AM, emailme992000 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm a total newbie to XAMPP. > > I downloaded XAMPP onto my Win XP Pro SP2 machine. > > It installs ok. Everything seems to work. Apache server is running. > MySQL is running. PHP is running. PHPmyAdmin works fine. I can > create databases and tables etc. using phpMyAdmin ok. > > But, when I use Notepad or Wordpad to create a little test file, any > HTML statements in the file come up in Firefox ok but...none of the > PHP code between the <?php and ?> tags executes at all. No error > messages are given...nothing...as if the PHP code was not there at all. > > I'm saving the test file into c:\xampp\htdocs if that makes any > difference. > > Anybody have any idea what is going wrong here? This is driving me > crazy. I'd appreciate any help anyone can give. > > Many thanks. > > Joe > > > -- Regards Goutam [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
