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

Posted by Bruce Gordon
Bruce Gordon
6,850 Points

Problems converting html to php

I am at the beginning of the php course creating the Shirts 4 Mike website. I downloaded and installed XAMPP and I was able to get test.php working properly. Now I am trying to make a couple of modifications to index.html to convert the title and footer to php.

I rebooted the computer and restarted Apache and made sure that test.php still functions correctly.

What I changed the code to in index.html is: <title><?php echo "Shirts 4 Mike"; ?></title> and <p>Ā©<?php echo date('Y'); ?> Shirts 4 Mike</p>

The title of the webpage displays as <?php echo "Shirts 4 Mike and the footer displays as (c) Shirts 4 Mike.

Julian Gutierrez
Julian Gutierrez
19,201 Points
Julian Gutierrez
Julian Gutierrez
19,201 Points

Shouldn't index.html be changed to index.php?

2 Answers

sitkibagdat
sitkibagdat
27,311 Points
sitkibagdat
sitkibagdat
27,311 Points

Is your file's extension is php? like index.php not html

Bruce Gordon
Bruce Gordon
6,850 Points
Bruce Gordon
Bruce Gordon
6,850 Points

I think I need to take more time working through these problems myself. I am not comfortable yet with the syntax in php. Thanks for your help.