Seeing PHP source when file opened on server?

da4i's

Hi lads,

When I run my PHP script on my server, it just shows the source code - nothing happens.

To my knowledge this is a sign that the server does not support PHP, but when i bought the webhosting, it said it supported it.

Can anyone shed any light on this for me ?

Thanks,
Dave

Eoin

You might have to enable PHP in the hosting control panel.

AARRRGH

Are you using correct PHP tags, i.e. <?php & ?> ?

Are you using the .php extension?

da4i's

Turns out it does have PHP installed on the server ....

This is confusing....

Anyone any ideas?
I am using the correct PHP tags too .

Eoin

PHP might be installed on the server, but you might have to turn it on in your hosting control panel.

da4i's

Turns out it doesnt show errors.... hmmm ... ah well. Any idea's how ta fix that ? The PHP is running now, i had an error in my code.

Thanks for all help received,
Dave

AARRRGH

Do you have access to your php.ini file? It's usually somewhere like /usr/local/lib. In there there's the setting "display_errors = On". You probably have it set to "off".

smcelhinney

Is the mime type for php set up? In mime.types

application/x-httpd-php php
application/x-httpd-php-source phps

Although I think it is there by default.

ocallagh

da4i's wrote: »

Turns out it doesnt show errors.... hmmm ... ah well. Any idea's how ta fix that ? The PHP is running now, i had an error in my code.

Thanks for all help received,
Dave

just stick [PHP]ini_set("display_errors", 1); [/PHP]at the top of your file.