"Hello World" error

**ramesh** · Jul 16, 2017, 07:44 PM

I'm trying to start learning PHP, but the first tutorial, "Hello World" is already giving errors.

Code:

<html>
 <head>
 <title>PHP Test</title>
 </head>
 <body>
 
<?php echo '<p>Hello World</p>'; ?> 

 </body>
</html>

Should give me a page with the words "Hello World" only, instead it also gives the characters

'; ?>

What am I doing wrong?

**gW33Zy** · Jul 16, 2017, 10:36 PM

You example code is correct, so what you're getting is very weird.

**owen** · Jul 17, 2017, 06:40 AM

Copy and paste the hello world 2 or 3 times and see if you get the output repeats. It could be a problem with your installation or maybe your php is set up to use regular opening tags like "<? ... ?>"

**recursion** · Jul 17, 2017, 04:35 PM

YOLO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

**ramesh** · Jul 17, 2017, 05:33 PM

I think the problem might be in some weird configuration of my Ubuntu computer. When I tested it on my website it worked perfectly.

I think in future I'll stop testing on my personal PC.

**owen** · Jul 17, 2017, 07:40 PM

Personal pcs are the best to test on. - no Internet required. If you can find the php.ini files you can then compare the one you have on your server with the one on your pc. Or just reinstall.

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