I have noticed many forums on the internet where users seem to be mystified by the blank php page that shows up when they test the following code (or any php code mixed with HTML);
<html>
<head>
<title>Test PHP</title>
</head>
<body>
<?php
phpinfo ( );
?>
</body>
</html>
The blank PHP pages are occurring because the users are attempting to write their code using an some editor that is not coding in plain text. The users are coding in text that contains HTML itself. WordPad was giving me this trouble. Once I copied and pasted my code written in WordPad (incorporates HTML features into text) into NotePad (strictly plain text) and WALLAH... when I accessed my phpinfo test page I no longer saw a blank page. Before I used notepad, when I would "view source" while visiting the blank web page I would see the following sorta tags and HTML;
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML><HEAD>
<META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"></HEAD>
<BODY></BODY></HTML>
If you wish to use WordPad, then you must save the file as a text document (.txt) instead of the default RichText format which allows the use of HTML formatting behind the scenes.
Sincerely,
Shawn Englerth
ps. if this helps you please let me know... you can reach me at puffdaddy@dejazzd.com
OR
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