newbie, be patient please.

[wilsation]

I am a web builder who's trying out php for the first time. My problem is that if I create a link to a php page the php code is displayed in the browser and not the echo text. If I call the php page via http://localhost/xxx.php the page works fine. I assume the information isn't being parsed.
I'm sure this is an obvious solution that I just can't see, I thought it was a problem with IIS/PHP installation but it seems to be ok.

Help me out please as I really want to get moving with this.

Ta.

[dannyboy26]

Several possible options. One common reason is that you just have <? instead of <?php at the start of your code, which will be accepted by most webservers but most local servers by default want <?php at the start to denote PHP code.

[wilsation]

I have been stupid but have now realised my error, I was double clicking directly on the .html file to open it instead of typing http:/... into the browser.