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How do I know that my server supports PHP?

Participant ,
Feb 21, 2017 Feb 21, 2017

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Hi everyone,

Very many thanks to all who have helped me so far it is very much appreciated.  I am trying to put together my own web page using Dreamweaver and have been following a number of tutorials.

I am now stuck on my contact page and in particular the php area (i think)....

I have followed a tutorial by Nancy_O from this community but I think / know I have done something wrong.  Would someone be able to look at my site and identify where I have made a boo boo please?

www.jmacphot.com

Again many thanks for taking the time to look at this for me, if I could I would get you a beer!

All the best

John

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Guru , Feb 21, 2017 Feb 21, 2017

The way I would check on PHP availability would be to make a file, name it info.php and put in it:

<?php
phpinfo();

?>

This will not just tell you that PHP is installed, but also provides a lot of other useful information. For instance, if PHP version 7 is installed, then you need to write code for that version. Some code written for PHP5 would break on PHP7.

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Feb 24, 2017 Feb 24, 2017

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You're on a fast broadband connection.  The rest of world is not always so lucky.  And mobile data plans can be very slow & restrictive about bandwidth. 

Nancy

Nancy O'Shea— Product User, Community Expert & Moderator
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Feb 24, 2017 Feb 24, 2017

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Just adding to what Nancy said:

There are many factors involved in determining how quickly your website resolves at any given place, on any given device. It costs a lot of money to reliably deliver good speed everywhere.

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