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PHP

Andrew Hunt
Andrew Hunt
7,665 Points
Posted by Andrew Hunt
Andrew Hunt
7,665 Points

re PHP not showing up

Hi,

I've just started on the PHP track and am trying to update my portfolio site to show 'last modified' details as per PHP basics. I added the following code into my index.html file, then renamed it to index.php

<p>Ā© Andy Hunt <?php echo $this_year; echo ' ' . $display_name; // outputs e.g. 'Last modified: March 04 1998 20:43:59.' echo ". Last modified: " . date ("F d Y H:i:s.", getlastmod()); ?></p>

When I then tried to reopen the file with Chrome it just showed up as a load of plain text. I don't really understand why this has happened, I wondered whether it was because I have PHP installed on my computer but I've checked and it does seem to be. Any advice would be welcome!

Thanks Andy