Help starting off with php urgh!

[StarSant]

Hello All,

I’m super first time new with MAMP. I saved a file in the htdocs folder, in .php format. All it says is “hello world”, with no php tags, like how the guy in the video does to begin with.

When I go to http://localhost:8888/ (like he does in the video) it takes me to a placeholder page, rather than displaying the words “hello world”. What am I doing wrong? I have saved it in the right folder. The other files in the folder are an index.php file and a .gif image. Please need help!!! Thank you.

[Roxon]

I know at first in XAMPP there was a placeholder folder in htdocs called “xampp”. For you, it might be a similarly named folder. Delete (or back up) everything in htdocs except your index file, and you should be set.

[StarSant]

Hi Roxon, thanks for posting. I checked out the htdocs folder, and there is no xampp folder of any sort to be seen. There is a xcache folder, but this belongs to another directory (the bin folder), and not in the htdocs folder.

I must be missing something in the “compiling” process, so to speak (referring back to my C++ background). Am I supposed to be going to http://localhost:8888/ to verify the output? Is there something in MySql that I have to establish first? I just want to get started urgh thank you!

[mixxmac]

You are probably browsing to the index.php file in the htdocs folder. Try editing or removing the index.php file to test if that is the file that is showing up at http://localhost:8888/. Or, try browsing to http://localhost:8888/yourfile.php.

[StarSant]

yup the last suggestion, adding the filename.php extension, does the trick. thank you so much for helping a neophyte such as myself :)

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