PHP code not being rendered in browsers [closed]

Answer 1

This is definitely not a browser issue: it's an environmental one. Something in WAMP is not set up to execute this page as a PHP script.

Answer 2

If what you are saying is true, that other *.php files run without a problem, my assumption would be that the encoding you are saving the file in is causing the problem.

<!--?php <- What Chrome is changing the PHP tag to make me think the encoding of the document is incorrect.

Try saving the file as a new document, or copy and pasting the code into a new document and saving it as a new file. I would bet that fixes your issue.

Answer 3

Wow. Okay, so to diagnose it I copied the code in the file and then deleted manage.php altogether.

I then created a new file using the Windows Explorer GUI (the 'normal' way) called manage.php and pasted the code.

Then it worked.

Before I had created manage.php with Windows PowerShell using

new-item -type file manage.php

I have had similar problems where the encoding of PowerShell is not UTF-8 but Big-Endian or something and it...simply put, messes with things. I suppose this is a rare problem but a good lesson in diagnosing problems.

Thanks guys.