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Asked: 2026-05-25T12:17:36+00:00

i’m making an ajax call to a php function… i’m trying to display the

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i’m making an ajax call to a php function… i’m trying to display the server time on the time input field using a php script… i was following a tutorial i found online word per word but for some reason i keep receiving the actual text from the php file in time input field… can someone please tell me why this is happening?

here’s my code 

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html>
<head>
    <title>Server Time Example</title>
</head>
<body>

<script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">
<!--
    //Browser Support Code
    function ajaxFunction() {
        var ajaxRequest;  // The variable that makes Ajax possible!

        try {
            // Opera 8.0+, Firefox, Safari
            ajaxRequest = new XMLHttpRequest();
        } catch (e) {
            // Internet Explorer Browsers
            try {
                ajaxRequest = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP");
            } catch (e) {
                try {
                    ajaxRequest = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
                } catch (e) {
                    // Something went wrong
                    alert("Your browser broke!");
                    return false;
                }
            }
        }
        // Create a function that will receive data sent from the server
        ajaxRequest.onreadystatechange = function () {
            if (ajaxRequest.readyState == 4) {
                document.myForm.time.value = ajaxRequest.responseText;
            }
        }
        ajaxRequest.open("GET", "serverTime.php", true);
        ajaxRequest.send(null);
    }

//-->
</script>

<form name='myForm'>
Name: <input type='text' onChange="ajaxFunction();" name='username' /> <br />
Time: <input type='text' name='time' />
</form>
</body>
</html>

Here’s the PHP:

<?php
  echo date("H:i:s");

?>
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  1. Editorial Team

    I’m going to make the assumption you are using Apache as your web server. You should ensure you have something similar to the following in your configuration:

    AddType application/x-httpd-php .php

    It looks like your files are being served as plain text instead of being handed off to PHP.

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