Okay, it turns out I'm retarded. It wasn't working because I turned retarded overnight and forgot everything I learned. Turns out I was opening the pages in a browser instead of //localhost/. It works okay now. Someone I became unretarded overnight, but I still feel retarded. Sorry to waste your time. And the reason the code looks so weird is I think it went from the < in <?php to the > in hr /> Perhaps next time I will wait a...

First, let me state I'm a newbie. I'm in the second chapter of "PHP and MySQL Web Development." You build a script in the book, and mine worked just fine yesterday. Now it looks like none of the PHP code is being processed. That script is a little long, so I'll just show my test script to show what's wrong. The top 3 lines are taken from the self-help portion of this website.

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