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Asked: 2026-06-13T14:44:29+00:00

It’s been a few months since I’ve used PHP so I’m assuming I’m just

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It’s been a few months since I’ve used PHP so I’m assuming I’m just forgetting something trivial. No matter what PHP I put into my .php file, the PHP part doesn’t run. Even something as simple as this

<html>
    <body>
        <?php 
            echo "hey";
        ?>
    </body>
</html>

doesn’t work–it produces a blank page. Thanks for your help!

EDIT: I forgot to mention that I’m viewing the pages in my browser by typing in the file location into the URL. Ex) file:///C:/Users/Student/Documents/test.php

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  1. Editorial Team
    file:///C:/Users/Student/Documents/test.php

    This URL is opened by your browser from the local filesystem. PHP is executed by a webserver. The browser doesn’t understand PHP. Your PHP after execution by server generates HTML which is finally displayed by your web-browser.

    So, you should host a local webserver and access it as http://localhost/xxx.php, if you want the PHP to execute. Xampp perhaps.

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