Today, I decided to download wordpress and the first file that I have come across is wp-admin/install.php. the first thing in the file is this:
// Sanity check.
if ( false ) {
?>
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Error: PHP is not running</title>
</head>
<body class="wp-core-ui">
<p id="logo"><a href="https://wordpress.org/">WordPress</a></p>
<h1>Error: PHP is not running</h1>
<p>WordPress requires that your web server is running PHP. Your server does not have PHP installed, or PHP is turned off.</p>
</body>
</html>
<?php
}
Now I am kind of wondering, What is if( false ) ? and how does it mean that the user is not running php on their server?
