PHP gets commented out in HTML

Question

I created a simple HTML webpage that includes the following PHP code in the HTML code.

When I run

Answer 1

Reference

Create a file named hello.php and put it in your web server's root directory (DOCUMENT_ROOT) with the following content:

Example #1 Our first PHP script: hello.php

 
  
 
 
 Hello World
'; ?> 
 

Use your browser to access the file with your web server's URL, ending with the /hello.php file reference. When developing locally this URL will be something like http://localhost/hello.php or http://127.0.0.1/hello.php but this depends on the web server's configuration. If everything is configured correctly, this file will be parsed by PHP and the following output will be sent to your browser:

 
  
 
 
 
Hello World