On Oct 27, 2011, at 5:14 PM, Daniel Brown wrote: > On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 15:25, Tedd Sperling <tedd.sperling@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> -snip my confusion - > > No need to review the code. The first hunch I had proved correct. > PHP opens with a less-than (left carat, or 'less-than') symbol, as do > HTML tags. As a result, the browser interprets both as tags and tries > to parse them. > > -snip- > > -- > </Daniel P. Brown> Daniel: But of course. I never considered that the "<" in both the HTML (<!doctype html>) and the PHP (<?php) would cause the browser to wig-out and not display the contents of the file -- good catch! I knew there was something wrong -- I just didn't realize that the Browser was trying to think for me. That'll teach me to use a Browser as a hex-viewer. Thanks, tedd _____________________ tedd@xxxxxxxxxxxx http://sperling.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php