I saved a .php file to file:///C:/xampp/htdocs/tester/tester.php, and though my XHTML and CSS are working, my PHP is not. I put
<?php phpinfo(); ?>
as the first line of the body, and
<?php
echo "<p>Hello World</p>";
?>
a couple of paragraphs in. But when I view the page, nothing for phpinfo() shows up at all, and the Hello World bit shows up as:
Hello World"; ?>
Apache and MySQL are running. I've scoured the internet and can't find a solution, but I feel like it's probably something very basic that I'm missing.
Try to call your file with
localhost/tester/tester.php
instead of file:///C:/xampp/htdocs/tester/tester.php.