HTML5 PHP Form issue

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I am 15 and new to HTML and PHP so if i did something stupid, please excuse me!

I have made a website with a contact form and I made the .php file. This is my code:

<FORM METHOD="POST" ACTION="contact.php">

I click submit and it takes my to the contact.php file and it shows me the code in the browser. How do I make the php file actually work?

could you post all the code please? and what do you want to do? store in a database or email? — Christophe
– Christophe, Commented May 21, 2011 at 21:32
you should also check that short tags are not used, e.g <? for opening and also <?= as if its set to off your also see un-parsed code... — Lawrence Cherone
– Lawrence Cherone, Commented May 21, 2011 at 22:20

John Green · Accepted Answer · 2011-05-21 22:01:48Z

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There are two suspects here.

1). You're trying to view this locally. You'll need to actually have a server with PHP installed and route things through that.

2). Your server doesn't understand PHP.

Added:

Actually a 3rd thought occurred to me:

3). Your PHP file doesn't have a PHP start marker set. Make sure the file begins with <?php (although there are some derivations of that).

edited May 21, 2011 at 22:01

answered May 21, 2011 at 21:36

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chx · Accepted Answer · 2011-05-21 21:35:03Z

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Your problem is neither PHP nor HTML (much less HTML5) -- if a PHP file displays in the browser, then webserver is not set up right. However, without knowing what machine you are on , it's impossible to advise further.

Also, welcome to web programming, we are here to help. Please consider contributing to an open source project (I would recommend Drupal of course :) ).

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T1000 · Accepted Answer · 2011-05-21 21:36:07Z

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Do you have installed server ? If you don't have, you can use xampp - includes apache, php, mysql and other stuff.

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