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Hello evryone! i am very new to PHP! I study it with ebook: PHP & MySQL For Dummies , 3rd Edition!
Once i try and have copy the whole code from the book like this(write in notepad)


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<html>
<head>
<title>PHP Test</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>This is an HTML line
<p>
<?php
echo “This is a PHP line”;
phpinfo();
?>
</body></html>

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and save to C:\wamp\www\ss\a.php then i open wamp server with crome and switch to
http://localhost/ss/a.php

but it show:
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Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting ',' or ';' in C:\wamp\www\ss\a.php on line 9
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Why it is crazy like that?
in that book the author tell that it should display
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This is an HTML line This is a PHP line
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Help me please!
<FAKE SIGNATURE DELETED>

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Member Avatar for jino

you just try either
echo phpinfo();

or remove the semicolon after the "This is a php line"

Reply if it fixes..

Member Avatar for cwarn23

The type of quotes you used are invalid. I've never seen double italic quotes like that before but the following should do the job.

<html>
<head>
<title>PHP Test</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>This is an HTML line
<p>
<?php
//before was: echo “This is a PHP line”;
echo "This is a PHP line"; //now is
phpinfo();
?>
</body></html>

Hope that helps.

Member Avatar for ayesha789

When you copy from books it put qoutes not like this "
please change qoutes with these "

Member Avatar for ayesha789

Use this code and mark this thread as solved , Thanks.

<html>
<head>
<title>PHP Test</title>
</head>
<body>
<p>This is an HTML line
</p>
<?
echo "This is a PHP line";
phpinfo();
?>
</body></html>
Member Avatar for sereYboth

Thank all i am OK now!

Member Avatar for ayesha789

Please mark this thread as Solved.

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