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James T · January 28th, 2005, 07:36 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by VHockey86

You'll need the text inside to be in an "echo" block for that to work though right?

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VHockey86 · January 29th, 2005, 12:20 AM

Well, simply enclosing some text inside of a <?php ?> block isnt going to make it show up on the page (in fact, you'll get a parse error if you don't)
you need to use the "echo" command to pass it there

like this:

Code:

<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
Some testing stuff outside of php <br>
<?php echo "some stuff inside php"; ?><Br>
Some more stuff outside of php.
</body>
</html>

James T · January 29th, 2005, 02:04 AM

Ah, you misunderstood.

If you enclose say some text. inside like <? some text. ?> then mod_php treats it as a comment and never sends some text. at all. But if it fails you see some text.?> displayed by your web browser or <? some text. ?> if you look at it raw.

The point being a simple test for php being present. And one I had tested on my own box.