Re: [PHP-INSTALL] php parse error after installation

[email protected] (Daniel Brown) Sat, 8 Sep 2012 10:58:24 -0400

Newsgroups	php.install
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On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 3:42 AM, kevin <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi there,
>
>                 I have exhausted all methods I can find to fix this problem
> ,which is from the following php code from php 5 for dummies book, which I
> doubled checked as well from their website,
>
>
>
> <html>
>
> <head>
>
> <title>PHP Test</title>
>
> </head>
>
> <body>
>
> <p>This is an HTML line
>
> <?php
>
> echo “<p>This is a PHP line</p>”;

    Note the special quotes you're using here --- that's why.  PHP
doesn't understand fancy quotes, only:

        Single-quotes (  '  ), which PHP parses as a literal string.
        Double-quotes (  "  ), which PHP parses as a string to be
interpreted (such as the translation of variables).
        Backticks (  `  ), which PHP uses to execute command-line code
(if permitted by system configuration).

    Change your quotes to either single or double quotes and your
problems should vanish.

-- 
</Daniel P. Brown>
Network Infrastructure Manager
http://www.php.net/