PHP problem

[pininfarina]

everytime I add a php page to one of my sites and check it out in my firefox webbrowser, FF automatically asks me if I want to download the php script, I only want to show the normal workings Like a contact form and not download the complete thing, how can I stop this?

[danlefeb]

PHP is like ASP where it's a server-based code. Which means running it on your local computer won't work unless you have a web server set up. Assuming you're on XP, go to your Control Panel > Add or Remove Programs and hit the Add/Remove Windows Components on the lefthand side. In there, you're looking for Internet Information Services (IIS). Once that's installed, you can go to http://www.php.net and download PHP and install it on your computer.

[pininfarina]

PHP is like ASP where it's a server-based code. Which means running it on your local computer won't work unless you have a web server set up. Assuming you're on XP, go to your Control Panel > Add or Remove Programs and hit the Add/Remove Windows Components on the lefthand side. In there, you're looking for Internet Information Services (IIS). Once that's installed, you can go to http://www.php.net and download PHP and install it on your computer.

thank you, found the root of my problem, my server wasn't setup in the right way

[danlefeb]

Glad you got it working :)

[NathanLedet]

For anyone else experiencing this...I use a program called WAMP (http://www.wampserver.com/en/) , which installs PHP, MySQL, and Apache so you can test PHP scripts right on your computer.