Help with Chapter 1 Novice to Ninja

PHP
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I’m having a problem with this same example. I’m on a mac and set up my server with MAMP as outlined in the book. I was able to successfully complete the “today” example from chapter 1 but with this example when I type the URL into my browser (http://localhost/name.html) all I get is a page of code:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang=“en”>
<head>
<meta charset=“utf-8”>
<title>Query String Link Example</title>
</head>
<body>
<p><a href=“name.php?name=Kevin”>Hi, I’m Kevin!</a></p>
</body>
</html>

I copied the code from https://github.com/spbooks/PHPMYSQL5/tree/master/chapter3/links1 and pasted them into text edit files and saved them as name.html and name.php.html in the htdocs folder in the MAMP folder in Applications.

2

Well the second file in the location you linked to is called name.php, not name.php.html…

3

Thanks. I ended up downloading the files from github but still had problems. I guess the server kept accessing the old html file even though I moved it to the trash. Once I emptied the trash folder it used the new file. I’m guessing the reason it didn’t work in the first place was because I used textedit to create the html file. I’ll use textwrangler for html and netbeans for php from now on.