XAMPP working, but can't read php

Question

I've just set up my XAMPP and it works fine, opens //localhost/dashboard fine, and phpinfo() as well. When I try //localhost/test.php which is just

<?php
    echo "Hello world";
?>

but the page is blank, I run it as a web page from localhost, not as a file, most probably it's a problem in installation but I haven't tweaked anything, and everything is by default.

Answer 1

Create a folder in htdocs like "test".

Then in test put index.php with a simple Echo 'Hello';

Then on your browser (make sure apache + mysql are running in control panel).

Visit this in your browser:

http://localhost/test/index.php