davefaz Posted January 30, 2007 Share Posted January 30, 2007 I have a number of sites that include small amounts of embedded php. The servers the files run on insist that the files are named with the extension php or they won't parse the damn things. I use a number of editors for various editing but I have to admit that the one I like most for entering text in to an already written page is Frontpage. Of course this is a bit lame when it comes to CSS so I was looking forward to Expression Web. Expression Web uses a Preview function that is based on web browsers installed on your PC, and there lies my problem. IE7 will not even attempt to display a file with embedded php. Rather than treating it as HTML and ignoring any PHP, it just displays the source code for the entire file. Oh great. This means that I can't preview any files anymore without first loading them on to the web site. GREAT. Is there a way round this? Any suggestions welcome. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wildteen88 Posted January 30, 2007 Share Posted January 30, 2007 Browsers do not understand PHP code. PHP is a server side programming langauge. Not client side (HTML, CSS, JavaScript are client side and browsers understand these).What you'll want to do is download a package called WAMP. Once you have this installed you can view page with PHP code in them - in order to do that you need to store these files in WAMP's www folder (C:\WAMP\www) and then you go to http://locaalhost/ to run them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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