PHP Won't Work

[Cheeseweasel]

After ages of messing around trying to sort out the path variable, I managed to get the PHP .MSI installer to work on my Apache 2.0.59 server. The PHP I refer to is 5.2.3.

 

It now loads PHP files perfectly well, but for some reason it cannot do any PHP operations. For instance:

 

Hello world!

 

This loads perfectly, despite having a PHP extension. The text 'Hello world!' appears in my browser.

 

<?PHP
$variable = Tom

echo "Oh, hello, $variable."
?>

 

This simply gives me a big white screen.

 

Any help?

Anybody know why this is happening?

[Cheeseweasel]

Ack, sorry for the double post. I read this topic: http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/index.php/topic,146784.0.html

 

And that told me what I was doing wrong.

 

My new question is; is there any way I can make it work without using PERFECT syntax? Many codes are not done perfectly and thus they do not work on my server, whereas they did on my old server hosted by a professional company. How can I change this?

[AndyB]

My new question is; is there any way I can make it work without using PERFECT syntax? Many codes are not done perfectly and thus they do not work on my server, whereas they did on my old server hosted by a professional company. How can I change this?

 

Try lowering the error_reporting setting.

 

Check the status of register_globals as well ('professional' servers often set it to ON so crappy old scripts still run and they don't get support calls all the time).

[steviewdr]

Well, seems like:

<?PHP

$variable = Tom

 

echo "Oh, hello, $variable."

?>

 

should have ;'s at the end of each line. i.e.

<?php

$variable = 'Tom';

echo "Oh, hello, $variable.";

?>

 

There could be some settings in php.ini which may elleviate having to use a semi-colon. If you can get the settings used on your old server, that'll help a lot.

 

-steve