Trying to connect to MySQL for the first time

Rally · July 21, 2020, 7:36am

I am tring to connect to my database.
I am using xampp with PhPmyadmin. (v 4.9.0.1)
I read a help page ( https://www.homeandlearn.co.uk/php/php12p4.html ) which had some code to check if you are connecting to MySQL. and to put it in xampp/htdocs/test/test.php.
The code is:

<html>
	<head>
		<title>PHPTest</title>
	</head>
		<body>
			<?php echo '<p>Hello World</p>' ;?>			
		</body>
</html>

When I open it in Firefox I get:

Hello World

' ;?>

When opened in Chrome I get:

<html>
	<head>
		<title>PHPTest</title>
	</head>
		<body>
			<?php echo '<p>Hello World</p>' ;?>			
		</body>
</html>

I also tried the code outside of xampp , and I get the same results.

phdr · July 21, 2020, 9:53am

What URL did you use in your browser(s)? It should be http://localhost/test/test.php

Rally · July 22, 2020, 4:17am

Thanks. that works, That was what I thought I was using… but I wasnt. I was using
xampp/htdocs/test/test.php
Now it all makes sense.