[Techtalk] php help

Mon Jun 3 14:45:14 UTC 2013

Are you sure it's all PHP pages or just that one, with phpinfo() inside HTML code?

What happens with this

<html>
  <head>
   <title>PHP Test</title>
  </head>
  <body>
  <p><?php echo 'hello world' ?></p>
  </body>
</html>

Sheila

Maria McKinley wrote:
> Okay, I have figured out that it is indeed something about php within
> html. I have made sure all of my files are saved with utf-8 encoding.
> 
> Here is the deal. If I take a file and write this in it:
> 
> <html>
>  <head>
>   <title>PHP Test</title>
>  </head>
>  <body>
>  <?php phpinfo() ?> 
>  </body>
> </html>
> 
> I get the funny letters. If I take the same file with the same editor,
> erase what is in it and write this:
> 
> <?php phpinfo() ?>
> 
> The funny letters go away, and vise-versa. Any more ideas?
> 
> thanks,
> maria
> 
> 
> On Wed, May 29, 2013 at 8:26 PM, Sheila Fenelon <sheila at shefen.com
> <mailto:sheila at shefen.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Maria McKinley wrote:
>     >
>     > I am getting weird characters at the bottom of my php page
>     outputs, and I
>     > can't figure out why. My searches tell me it is related to character
>     > encoding, but I can't figure out where else I could change the
>     encoding.
>     >
>     > ella:~# echo $LANG
>     > en_US.UTF-8
>     >
>     > I've set encoding for utf-8 in /etc/apache2/conf.d/charset and php.ini
>     >
>     > To look at what I am talking about at the very bottom of this page
>     are the
>     > weird characters:
>     >
>     > http://www.shadlenlab.columbia.edu/test.php
>     >
>     > This is a very simple php page:
>     >
>     > <html>
>     > <head>
>     > <title>PHP Test</title>
>     > </head>
>     > <body>
>     > <?php phpinfo(); ?>
>     > </body>
>     > </html>
>     >
>     > The characters do not show up on an html page with no php. Any ideas?
>     >
> 
>     I can't recreate it here with PHP 5.2 on 32-bit Debian. But it goes
>     away when I use
>     wget to capture that page.
> 
>     Is it on all PHP pages or just that one? Because that page has extra
>     HTML. All it
>     needs is
> 
>     <?php phpinfo() ?>
> 
>     and a complete HTML page will be generated.
> 
>     --
>     Sheila Fenelon
>     http://www.shefen.com/
> 