Echo display end of command line

PHP
1

Attempting to regain php literacy. (and my first venture into HTML5) Can’t even get my “Hello World” to work. Here’s my code

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title></title>
<meta name="" content="">
</head>
<body>
<?php echo ("<p>Why is this happening?</p>"); ?>
</body>
</html>

What displays is

Why is this happening?
"); ?>

i.e. the statement excerpt following the </p>

I’m running under windows 8. Same result in chrome 29.0, Firefox 24.0, IE 10.0

Not a good omen.

grNadpa

2

Hmm… Not sure.

<?php echo ("<p>Why is this happening?</p>"); ?>
<?php echo "<p>Why is this happening?</p>"; ?>
<?="<p>Why is this happening?</p>"; ?>

Produces the following output for me

Why is this happening?

Why is this happening?

Why is this happening?
3

Apparently has to do with my configuration because, after copy pasting your code, I get

Why is this happening?
"); ?> Why is this happening?
"; ?> Why is this happening?
"; ?>

just to confirm, here’s the script

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title></title>
<meta name="" content="">
</head>
<body>
 <?php echo ("<p>Why is this happening?</p>"); ?>
<?php echo "<p>Why is this happening?</p>"; ?>
<?="<p>Why is this happening?</p>"; ?>
</body>
</html>
4

So it seems. Silly question (I’m sure), but you are using a .php extension to your file right?

5

Thank you for the silly question.

'nuf said.

6

Was that the issue? …

7

Yes. Quite embarrassing.

8

Ah, no biggie, at least we got to the bottom of it :smiley: