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I have Expression Web and created a PHP page but it doesn't seem to be
displaying. I published it at:

http://www.newhollandrochester.com/quotes.php

The code is just a test that I'm doing (I'm new to PHP):

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Experimenting with quotes</title>
</head>

<body>
<?php
$name = 'David Powers';
echo 'Single quotes: The author is $name<br />';
echo "Double quotes: The author is $name";
?>
</body>
</html>

Can someone tell me why nothing is being displayed? Thanks
 
I'm no expert in PHP or programming generally, but I believe your syntax is
incorrect. To write (echo) the line including the value of the variable
with single quotes, you have to separate the text from the variable like so:

echo 'This persons name is', $name;

(note the single quote after the word "is" followed by a comma and $name;
(with no quotes) and terminated with the semi colon.

See this example: http://www.murraywebs.com/testPHP.php to demonstrate.
The double quotes method works the way you have written it, but for some
reason the code doesn't execute on the URL you give below. I think this is
because your host doesn't support PHP.

I just see the HTML/PHP code printed out on the screen but if you view it
here: http://www.murraywebs.com/quotes.php it runs OK - I just copied/pasted
it to a EW PHP page, and published to my host, and it works fine.

I'd check with your host that you can actually run PHP scripts.
 
In addition to the other replies, you may wish to post in the Expression
newsgroup.

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Tom [Pepper] Willett
Microsoft MVP - FrontPage Since 1997
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:I have Expression Web and created a PHP page but it doesn't seem to be
: displaying. I published it at:
:
: http://www.newhollandrochester.com/quotes.php
:
: The code is just a test that I'm doing (I'm new to PHP):
:
: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
: "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
: <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
: <head>
: <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
: <title>Experimenting with quotes</title>
: </head>
:
: <body>
: <?php
: $name = 'David Powers';
: echo 'Single quotes: The author is $name<br />';
: echo "Double quotes: The author is $name";
: ?>
: </body>
: </html>
:
: Can someone tell me why nothing is being displayed? Thanks
 
Hey everyone,

I contacted my service provider and he said that they support php, but he
didn't realize it was turned off by default. Anyways, I figured it was
something I was doing wrong but it seems that all is well. I realized right
after I made my post that this was a FrontPage forum (which I generally use)
so sorry for the misplaced post. Anyways, thanks a bunch for the help. Very
much appreciated!
 
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