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thanks for the comment. I must have been looking at this too long, because I missed the connection string to the database. It is all working now. Thanks again. And yes, the connect3.php file was an include file, so all of the pages on the site can connect to the DB via one file.

Also, the space directly to the right of the picture of the listing is where the link is, as opposed to the picture itself.

Thanks

Insanity is doing the same thing over and expecting a different result, right?

Thanks to all that helped on this. Peace out.

OMG, I am so sorry that I took up your time on this. In looking at the plugins on the site where this code does work, there is a plugin called EXEC-PHP, that runs php code in the pages. Duh! WTF was I thinking.

I think I am going to spray paint this info on the wall. I prefer the plugins to manually coding this, as I am often uncomfortable hacking some of this. The plugins make this so much easier.

Thank you so much again, and we are now good. Time to go get a drink while I watch the 6-12 inches of snow we are supposed to get here in Chicago.

I apologize if I misunderstood your statement about over complicating this.

The steps I took to get where I am are:

– Go to the admin page
– Go to Page – Edit, then Add New
– Name the page, add the code, then Publish.

It looks as though WP is trying to read the code as say a web browser reads a text file; it just dumps everything after the <? onto the page.

The point of this code is to pull links out of a db, to display about 80 picture onto a web page. I could create 80 pages and be done, but want to be more dynamic.

This whole thing should have taken an hour to put together, but the code is being fussy.

The code is in the page. The reason that I have done it this way is that the same code works beautifully in another site that I put together last month, in the page itself. Is there a better way to do this, as in putting the php code in an external file?

And yes, I have been accused of over-complicating things, but I think I am on target here.

Still no luck. I completely reinstalled everything, and even without installing any plugins or themes, I am getting the same thing.

To further detail this, I, for example am running the php code:

<?php

?>

and see ?> on the screen. This is perplexing.

Any thoughts would be appreciated.

Thanks guys. I have deleted the files, and am in the process of deleting the database. Overkill? perhaps yes, but I want a clean slate all the way around.

This has me freaked out, as to why WP would be like this, having done many uneventful installs. For a couple of more minutes, as opposed to the hours I have spent trying to troubleshoot is a small investment in time. This will all work out in the end though.

Thanks again.

Oh, and yes, I tried both tag formats.

I spent 10 minutes on the phone with Godaddy support, and as usual, they offered very little in the way of a solution. WP came installed with the hosting package. The next step is to uninstall and reinstall.

This is such a PITA.

Thanks for your help.

alchymyth, can you please elaborate on short tags, and I will set up the permalinks before I do anytbing else.

Thanks

Thanks. Where is the .htaccess file? I have looked everywhere for it.

I tried that as well, and no dice, although I can run standalone .php files. It’s just getting stuff to run in WP.

If I call Godaddy’s help desk are they going to tell me it’s a WP issue?

Thanks

PHP version is 5.2.8

I’ll give this a try and see what happens. Thanks.