i been reading php for quite some time and on the verge of becoming a guru theoritically not have neva ran a script on any browser and it worked.
i often use notepad and save in modes like doc.php, doc.phtml and "doc.php" and non was succesful rather the codes appear on the browser page.
i have tried macromedia flash textpath still have not suceeded.
pls can you provide me the correct way of going about it and any tutorial that will be helpful to a beginer like me

1) To declare a PHP section, you should enclose your code within these tags:

<?php code goes here ?>

2) If you are using notepad (and this used to happen to me a lot), chances are that when saving your file, you aren't choosing "All files" under the "save as type" dropdown so that your "doc.php" is actually being saved as "doc.php.txt" (which you can verify by navigating to where you have the file saved and checking out its extension).

Try either or both of the 2 above and let us know if this helps.

Thanks,

First u have to make sure u have ur runtime engine installed. Then ur browser would be able to interprt anything that comes between<?php , ?> as a php tag and execute wats in between. When that is done, i bet ur script wud not jut run but sprint, lol