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PHP Build a Simple PHP Application Creating the Menu and Footer Starting the Project

Posted by Alain Breton
Alain Breton
2,656 Points

can't display LOCALHOST files nor INDEX.php with MAMP (Apache)

At first, the local host didn't display files but the browser could detect index.html. After renaming it to INDEX.php, only got a white page from the browser. Been using MAMP v. 3.0.7.3 (loading Apache and MySQL)

simhub
simhub
26,544 Points
simhub
simhub
26,544 Points

if you already add php code like - "<p>© <?php echo date('Y'); ?> 2012 Shirts 4 Mike</p>" on to the page it could be a syntax error you ran into. Something like a missing php end tag "?>".

2 Answers

thomascawthorn
thomascawthorn
22,986 Points

Throw this at the very top of your script - before anything else:

<?php

error_reporting(-1);
ini_set('display_errors', 'On');

You should get some error messages back. If so, what do they say?

Alain Breton
Alain Breton
2,656 Points
Alain Breton
Alain Breton
2,656 Points

Thanks! This command is helping me solve several problems in my code! :)