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I am beginner & have installed Xampp in windows 10 & its working fine ,ie i can access my localhost.But whenever i tried to execute my php file(in htdocs folder) same code is shown in browser .Whats the problem.Thanks in advance for any help /suggestions.

Which URL did you type into your browser to request your php file?

localhost/folder name/file name.php

Does your code use short open tags "<?" instead of the full one "<?php"?

i am using the simple code as:<?php phpinfo(); ?>

delrashmi wrote:localhost/folder name/file name.php

Please provide the full and real URL you enter into the browser.

localhost/rashmi/test.php

Which character encoding is your file saved in?

Sorry what did u say,i just can not understand it

Which editor do you use to create/edit your PHP files?
This editor has a setting for the character encoding (UTF-8, ISO-8859-1, etc.).
Here it is important that the PHP interpreter is unable to parse PHP files created with non-ANSI based encodings like UCS2 big endian.
That is the last known reason for not parsed custom made php code while the default dashboard is working well.

Is there a possibility that you can provide us your current xampp installation including this php file as zipped version via Dropbox or similar?

Is there a .htaccess file in folder rashmi? Copy test.php into htdocs folder (one step over rashmi) and enter http://localhost/test.php into your browser. What happens then?

i simply use my notepad & right now i do not have my laptop with me ,will send you tomorrow.

No there is no such file in folder rashmi & when i paste the file test.php in htdocs folder it gives me error as--
Object not found!
The requested URL was not found on this server. If you entered the URL manually please check your spelling and try again.

If you think this is a server error, please contact the webmaster.

Error 404
localhost
Apache/2.4.37 (Win32) OpenSSL/1.0.2p PHP/7.0.33

Also the document which i have saved in htdocs test.php is showing -document type as text document.

So your file is probably not saved as text.php but as text.php.txt?
And your windows is configured to hide known file extensions?

yes this is what is going on,now what i have to do now.