My PHP code is just a comment in my html

Question

Sorry guys this is probably pretty simple, but i\'ve been up way too late now. I have a basic html page with some javascript on it, and when i try to put any php in the body

Answer 1

Sounds like you either don't have PHP installed or you're not using a file extension which invokes the PHP engine - is your file called Blah.php?

Some things to check:

• You're serving the file from a web server (not locally)
• The server has PHP installed
• PHP is configured to handle the file type you're using (usually .php)
• creating a new file with just <?php phpinfo(); ?> and serving it should give you lots of info about your PHP install.
• If you have access to the server, you should be able to run PHP from the command line/shell