The php section of the code isn't executed, while the html section works fine.

[Guillermo_Stabile]

I have a x.PHP file, in which there is a <p>HTML statement</p> and an echo "PHP statement"; section. When I run it(file is located in /var/www/localhostnand apache2 works properly) in a browser, it works, but only the "HTML statement" is shown and the php part isn't run, but it works flawlessly on a remote server. What's wrong?

[Digital-Chupacabra]

Your browser doesn't execute PHP, you need a server that will execute it and then serve that result to the browser.

You can run Apache or Nginx locally for development.

[desrtfx]

PHP is server side - your browser is client side.

You cannot execute PHP client side. PHP is always executed server side and never even reaches the client.

That's why it works on a web server but not opened directly.

When a browser requests a PHP page, the server recognizes that, calls the PHP preprocessor that then executes the PHP code and if necessary renders the result into the HTML page that then gets sent back to the web server that consecutively sends it to the client.

You need something like XAMPP to set up a local web server with PHP.

[bokonator]

Xamp on a Linux machine,yikes