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

[email protected] (Keith Roberts) Sat, 8 Sep 2012 17:14:31 +0100 (BST)
Newsgroups	php.install
Message-ID	<[email protected]>
On Sat, 8 Sep 2012, Daniel Brown wrote:

> To: kevin <[email protected]>
> From: Daniel Brown <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [PHP-INSTALL] php parse error after installation
> 
> 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 Â“<p>This is a PHP line</p>Â”;
>
>    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.

Well spotted Daniel.

I was just gonna say use this instead:

<head>
<title>php-info</title>
</head>

<body>

<?php phpinfo(); ?>

</body>

Kind Regards,

Keith

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