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Asked: 2026-06-12T12:48:41+00:00

I was running through the tutorial on http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/php/online-file-storage-with-php/comment-page-2/#comments and it was working fine until:

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I was running through the tutorial on http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/php/online-file-storage-with-php/comment-page-2/#comments
and it was working fine until:

if(strlen($message) > 0)
{
    $message = '<p class="error">' . $message . '</p>';
}

This line of php is found in index.php. When I few the page in firefox, it looks like the php parser stops at the greater than. Can I escape the character? Do I need to?

EDIT: All the php code:

<?php 
//Load the settings
require_once("settings.php");

$message = "";
//Has the user uploaded something?
if(isset($_FILES['file']))
{
    $target_path = Settings::$uploadFolder;
    $target_path = $target_path . time() . '_' . basename( $_FILES['file']['name']); 

    //Check the password to verify legal upload
    if($_POST['password'] != Settings::$password)
    {
        $message = "Invalid Password!";
    }
    else
    {
        //Try to move the uploaded file into the designated folder
        if(move_uploaded_file($_FILES['file']['tmp_name'], $target_path)) {
            $message = "The file ".  basename( $_FILES['file']['name']). 
            " has been uploaded";
        } else{
            $message = "There was an error uploading the file, please try again!";
        }
        }

    //Clear the array
    unset($_FILES['file']);
}


if(strlen($message) > 0)
{
    $message = '<p class="error">' . $message . '</p>';
}    
?>
<html> ... </html> //my html code
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  1. Editorial Team

    The > won’t cause the PHP parser to stop.

    Without seeing the HTML output by the server, it is hard to say for sure, but since the > is the first > in the file it seems likely that the PHP parser never starts and the browser treats everything between the <?php at the start of the file and the strlen($message) > as a tag.

    You need to access the PHP through a web server with PHP installed and configured to process that file (which is typically done by giving it a .php file extension).

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