strange problem

please help

[nishant322]

Hi everybody,
i am new to this forum. I have seen that this forum is very interactive. well i am having a strange problem with php. I had a website hosted in linux environment it was fine. I then shifted to my own server, which i configured for php and apache.

Now the problem is the php functions that i am using occupy space in the webpage. This was not happening in the previous hosted server.

Please help.

thanks
nishant

[rob7591]

I'm not sure exactly what your problem is, but I'm assuming you mean the PHP code is showing up in the browser window. Try adding this line to .htaccess
AddHandler application/x-httpd-php .php

And make sure your files have a .php file extension.

[nishant322]

Hi,
Thank you very much for your reply.

I have files in .php extensions , thats fine and the web is database driven,everything is perfectly fine.

The issue is that suppose i have a kind of following code :

<?php
check something from database here
if(something=soemthing)
{
Html code goes here, like text or whatever
?>
<?php
}?>

Now the issue is that whatever php code i have in front and after the html takes up extra white space after the html code.
Suppose i display some text only if something=something in database , then what happens is like blank space comes after the html thing and makes my web page required to be scrolled. when i host the same page in another server, then there is no such issue.
I isntalled the apache and php in my own server and i am having problem in my server.

So i was wondering if you could help me , as far as i guess,i think i need to install any package with php something like php-mbstring or anything like that?
Please suggest.

thank you
Nishant

[nishant322]

Hi,
Any one please ? it seems to be because of php.ini file, in linux. The php codes take up space. please help .

thanx

[coopster]

You are getting extra whitespace? That is the problem? View Source in your browser to see what is happening.