On 25 April 2010 00:45, Gary <gwp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > What would cause a machine not to read/process php? > > I have a laptop that I have been ever increasing using for php scripting. > I decided to do a simple experiment, it started out something like: > > $seconds=1; > $minutes=$seconds*60; > $hours=$minutes*60; > $days="$hours*24; > > echo $seconds; > echo $minutes; > echo $hours; > echo $days; -snip- > > A text editor with syntax highlighting would certainly help. There's a double quote " right in front of the $hours variable on the fourth line. That's an unterminated string literal, a syntax error, which would cause PHP to abort entirely. Your php's error log probably has a message in it to this extent. The reason why you got a number of different results is probably because you added another double quote further down in later versions. But if that's somehow not it, post the entire source code of your file on a site like http://pastie.org/ so we can have a closer look. Michiel
