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PHP Build a Simple PHP Application Creating the Menu and Footer Including the Footer and Adding Additional Pages

Posted by Michael Nickey
Michael Nickey
Courses Plus Student 13,524 Points

MAMP Localhost only displaying a blank page.

Any ideas? From reading other forums posts I made sure to ... 1) ensure that MAMP is loading ... the start page from MAMP loads fine displaying the MAMP home page. 2) restart my system

This started when I copied the downloaded zip files into the htdocs folder.

Frustrated

2 Answers

Michael Nickey
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Michael Nickey
Courses Plus Student 13,524 Points
Michael Nickey
Michael Nickey
Courses Plus Student 13,524 Points

Fixed, two things happened here. Using Anvil, another tool that I recommend was using .pow. This has to be removed and can be done so easily in the settings of anvil. Second...

                &copy;<?php echo date('Y'); ?> Shirts 4 Mike 
            </p>

is not the same as 

            <p>
                &copy;<?php echo date('Y');  Shirts 4 Mike ?>
            </p>

Moving the ?> made a big difference.

David Thomas
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David Thomas
Courses Plus Student 21,263 Points
David Thomas
David Thomas
Courses Plus Student 21,263 Points

that ?> certainly does make a big difference, it tells the server when to stop rendering php and to send the html to the browser.

you could also have Shirts 4 Mike before the ?> by doing this, this is concatenating the date function with the string(text) by using a dot.

            <p>
                &copy;<?php echo date('Y') . " Shirts 4 Mike"; ?>
            </p>
            ```