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copied!<p>I am in the process of learning PHP and I ran into a snag, and I feel it is because the video tutorials I am watching are from 2005 and some of the API's haven't transferred over to current standards. Long story short one of the "challenges" is to create a quiz and no matter what I do the PHP code leaks over and is printed along with the HTML.</p> <pre><code><html> <head><title>Chapter #4 Challenge</title></head> <body> <h2> Chapter #4 Quiz</h2> <?php $question1 = "<b>Question #1: What does the operator == mean?</b><br> A) <input type=radio name='q1' value='a'>Equals<br> B) <input type=radio name='q1' value='b'>Not Equal<br> C) <input type=radio name='q1' value='c'>True<br> D) <input type=radio name='q1' value='d'>Assignment<br> <input type=submit value='Submit'> </form><br>"; $q1answer = "d"; ?> </body> </html> </code></pre> <p>The code outputs everything that it is supposed to but at the very end it also prints out:" "; $q1answer = "d"; ?>"</p> <p>What's confusing to me is why it prints anything at all, for starters, because I am just instantiating a variable and no where am I printing it. Second, why is it displaying the PHP code as text output? </p> <p>Also, for the record I am using a switch statement which prefixes the variable $question1 with the opening "form" brackets so I don't think it is because I am including it on the variable. Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated!</p>

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