PHP File keeps trying to download

[walleymo]

Hi everyone. I'm new here. I've been programming for about 5 years, but I'm new to PHP.

I just got PHP, Apache, and MySQL installed and I'm reading a book learning these technologies. I'm loving it so far.

My problem is, whenever I have an HTML document calling a php file, the browser (Firefox 2) tries to open or download the file instead of executing it. The code executes fine if it's all in one file [i]and[/i] the file extension is .html. Is there a problem with my configuration or something?

Forgive me if this question has been asked a lot before.

Thanks,
Jon

[bqallover]

It sounds as though you've missed a step somewhere in the configuration.  :)  Have you checked the [url=http://www.php.net/manual/en/faq.installation.php]PHP installation FAQ[/url] and closely followed the manual's instructions for your OS, e.g. editing you apache config file and php.ini?

[btherl]

Yes, it's the configuration.  Apache decides what type a file is (usually based on the extension, but can also be based on location and other factors).  So Apache needs to be told to execute .php files using php.

I can't give details because I don't know them, sorry :)

[walleymo]

Thanks for the replies.

It helps to know that Apache is what I need to fix.
I'll check out the Installation FAQ's

Thanks again!
Jon