Re: php form mail
I hope you take this in the spirit intended, but "complete novice" is a bit of an understatement. Your page is doing exactly what you told it to do, which is to display the text you're seeing.
The tags for PHP have to use real less-than and greater-than signs, not the < and > character entities if you want them to be interpreted by the server. So that part of your page should lokk like this:
PHP Code:
<?php
mail('*****@gmail.com','Test mail','The mail function is working!');
echo 'Mail sent!';
?>
The character combination <?php turns on the PHP interpreter; the ?> turns it off. The stuff between them is code that will be run by the server before the page is sent to the browser.
By the way, this forum is for support issues -- things that are wrong with your hosting account, not with the code on your site. There is a separate form, Programming Help, for issues like this one. Most of the community doesn't have permission to respond in the support forum, but they can answer questions posted elsewhere, so you're more likely to get help (and sometimes hand-holding) if you post in the appropriate forum.
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