PHP Problem

Question

I created a new web code to use my newly learned PHP skills, and I was testing something out:

<?php
for($a = 1; $a <= 100; $a++){
echo("<p>Jeff</p>");
}
?>

This resulted in the following:

Jeff

);}?

The last line I am not sure if it printed exactly that, but it is usually below the echo line.

•I have tried doing the echo with no parentheses

But when I ran it with the PHP code, it printed Jeff 100 times(like it is supposed to), what is the problem?

Answer 1

i guess your page extension is ".html" (f.e. mypage.html)
if that is the case, change it to ".php" (f.e. mypage.php) and you shouldn't see the additional );}? charachters.
that should be a security feature of servers.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16995177/when-would-i-want-to-use-html-vs-php-as-a-file-extension

Answer 2

echo doesn’t use parentheses, most of the time, there are exceptions.

If you want to use them use print() instead of echo.