Have you set up a web server locally? If you have, you should browse to your php pages a la [b]http://localhost/myfile.php[/b] , your php will be processed by the server and generate a web poage in the expected manner. Of course, MIME types should be set up properly on the server, and make sure that a PHP interpreter is running :) If you haven't set up a web server or if you browse to the file like [b]file:///c:/file.php[/b], your operating system will want to know what to do with the file ("open", "save as" etc), as the php is not being processed by the interpreter. That's quite normal.