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Sorry for the very basic question - I'm sure it's been asked before, but I wasn't able to find anything after a good amount of time searching.

 

ME: Brand new to PHP and associated products. Experienced programmer with a background in HTML (several years ago) and a tiny bit of experience in server side concepts.

 

Products: Windows XP home with SP3 (brand new machine)

Installed using the XAMPP 1.7.2 install tool:

Apache Serve software 2.2.12

PHP 5.3.0

MySql 5.1.37

 

After a few mishaps, I got all the software installed. When I go to my localhost directory, the XAMPP tools are displayed via a php script: I believe this means that PHP is working, at least at some level. When I do a simple test page, all I get is a blank browser. The simple test is:

<html>

<?

phpinfo();

?>

</html>

 

I've tried setting up this page as the index and also called it from the existing index page (inserting it for the page that the original index file calls), and all I get is emptiness.

 

Any ideas what I need to check for?

 

Thanks much!

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thanks much! I knew it was something stupid like that

 

so being a newb to php, is that a browser issue or a php version issue or php/apache issue?

 

I guess what I'm looking for with that question is what I need to look for when going through my excersizes and know what to adjust. my code was straight out of a book as an example for a quick php test.

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