UBB.Developers Forums Community Development Programming PHP and Server-side Scripting PHP in RedHat 7.3: Where is it?

I know RedHat 7.3 has PHP. I used 'whereis php' from the shell and it said PHP is in /usr/bin/php.

The reason I'm asking is I want to learn how to use php. I can write a simple script called this:
[]
<?
echo "Hello don Julio";
?>
[/]
Then I save the file in .php format. The problem is when I open the file in Mozilla, nothing shows up. Now I am a little further than that simple example, but the problem is my browser isn't parsing php. Is it something that has to be turned on in my computer, because I was under the impression that it already is on.

Please tell me how to turn php on because I hate having to transfer my practice files to my website just to see the results of what I'm doing. Thanks

Shouldn't it be:

donJulio,

I've always tested php using the following:

[]
<?
phpinfo();
?>
[/]

That wasn't working after I installed RedHat 8, but this did:

[]
<?php
phpinfo();
?>
[/]

Further, my threads install scripts were just dumping code to the screen, but when I changed the first line of install.php to the following, it started working:

[]
<?php
[/]

My guess is that this is a php or apache configuration issue that us newbies don't know about...hopefully someone will clue us in now.

Hope that helps,

et

See Escaping from HTML and Configuration directives (short_open_tag).

Thank you sir

Thanks, Dave. Hopefully a newbie in PHP like myself can decipher this