butevilibaity
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i am new to php.I am using WAMP. my problem is if write php code and test it with localhost/abcd.php it is working properly but when i used same code in linking with html it is displaying the the php code itself .why this is happening i saved them all files and in ansi and started all services here is the html code\[code\]enter code here <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <title>Aliens Abducted Me - Report an Abduction</title> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15565963/style.css" /> </head> <body> <h2>Aliens Abducted Me - Report an Abduction</h2> <p>Share your story of alien abduction:</p> <form action="report.php" method="post" > <label for="firstname">First name:</label> <input type="text" name="firstname" /><br /> <label for="lastname">Last name:</label> <input type="text" name="lastname" /><br /> <label for="email">What is your email address?</label> <input type="text" name="email" /><br /> <label for="whenithappened">When did it happen?</label> <input type="text" name="whenithappened" /><br /> <label for="howlong">How long were you gone?</label> <input type="text" name="howlong" /><br /> <label for="howmany">How many did you see?</label> <input type="text" name="howmany" /><br /> <label for="aliendescription">Describe them:</label> <input type="text" name="aliendescription" size="32" /><br /> <label for="whattheydid">What did they do to you?</label> <input type="text" name="whattheydid" size="32" /><br /> <label for="fangspotted">Have you seen my dog Fang?</label> Yes <input name="fangspotted" type="radio" value="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15565963/yes" /> No <input name="fangspotted" type="radio" value="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15565963/no" /><br /> <img src="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15565963/fang.jpg" width="100" height="175" alt="My abducted dog Fang." /><br /> < label for="other">Anything else you want to add?</label> <textarea name="other"></textarea><br /> <input type="submit" value="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/15565963/Report Abduction" name="submit" /> </form> </body> </html>\[/code\]AND HERE IS PHP CODE\[code\] <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <title>Aliens Abducted Me - Report an Abduction</title> </head> <body> <h2>Aliens Abducted Me - Report an Abduction</h2> <?php $first_name = $_POST['firstname']; $last_name = $_POST['lastname']; $when_it_happened = $_POST['whenithappened']; $how_long = $_POST['howlong'];$how_many = $_POST['howmany'];$alien_description = $_POST['aliendescription'];$what_they_did = $_POST['whattheydid'];$fang_spotted = $_POST['fangspotted'];$email = $_POST['email'];$other = $_POST['other'];$dbc = mysqli_connect('data.aliensabductedme.com', 'owen', 'aliensrool', 'aliendatabase')or die('Error connecting to MySQL server.'); $query = "INSERT INTO aliens_abduction (first_name, last_name, when_it_happened, how_long, " ."how_many, alien_description, what_they_did, fang_spotted, other, email) " ."VALUES ('$first_name', '$last_name', '$when_it_happened', '$how_long', '$how_many', " ."'$alien_description', '$what_they_did', '$fang_spotted', '$other', '$email')"; $result = mysqli_query($dbc, $query) or die('Error querying database.');mysqli_close($dbc);echo 'Thanks for submitting the form.<br />';echo 'You were abducted ' . $when_it_happened;echo ' and were gone for ' . $how_long . '<br />';echo 'Number of aliens: ' . $how_many . '<br />';echo 'Describe them: ' . $alien_description . '<br />';echo 'The aliens did this: ' . $what_they_did . '<br />';echo 'Was Fang there? ' . $fang_spotted . '<br />';echo 'Other comments: ' . $other . '<br />';echo 'Your email address is ' . $email; ?>\[/code\]