Bogart

The previous reply is correct if by edting the file you mean editing the code. Then you don't need an apache server installed. But from what you say in your post I guess that what you want is to see the page as in the design view. And for that you DO need apache running at the same time. To make it work you have to create a site for the files you want to edit, tell the path to the testing server, etc... and then you can open the file, click the "live data view" and see the page as it will show on a server. To easily install all you need (latest versions of apache, PHP, MySQL, and more) you can download apache2triad. It's very easy to install and complete bundle. http://apache2triad.sourceforge.net/

I'm just learning PHP now. For a month or so I wondered if there would be a program that would write the code for me so I shouldn't learn it. In the same way you can build up a whole HTML site without knowing a single line of HTML using Dreamweaver, I wondered if there would be a program that could do the same with PHP. And as far as I know, the answer is no. That's why I'm learning finally to code myself. About Dreamweaver, as far as I know, it can do a few useful things, but you won't get very far unless you know PHP yourself. Too bad, I love Dreamweaver and would prefer 100 times to just tell it what I want I it will code for me the entire site as it does with HTML. To write my code I'm useing Zend Studio. The debug feature is very useful for me. I know there are other cool editors like PHP Edit, which is free. Nobody mentioned them here, while I'm hearing "wordpad" lots of times. Why? A PHP editor can help very much in writng your code (autocomplete, debug, support, etc...) However, I'm just a newbie, as I said. Just writing my own first conclusions on the subject...