demonhale — Sun, 08 Apr 2007 04:22:35 +0000

oh and you can use htaccess to let even html be read as php...

Monkeyboy — Sat, 07 Apr 2007 09:16:59 +0000

Megan;215441 wrote: There are two ways to do this - server side includes or PHP.

Which is best? Currently I'm using php includes, but should I be using server side includes instead?

Monkeyboy — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 07:52:52 +0000

Ah ok, so I guess the only way is to install server software. I was hoping there might be a php editor type program which could emulate a server running php but hey ho.

andy206uk;215464 wrote: XAMPP is a real easy way.

I actually stumbled across that yesterday, does look pretty simple to install. I guess that's the way forward then. Cheers guys

andy206uk — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 21:36:59 +0000

Monkeyboy;215447 wrote: Is there a simple way/program for viewing .php pages without php installed. In otherwords on my home PC without having to upload them to the server?

XAMPP is a real easy way.

OldWelshGuy — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 20:54:18 +0000

Yes you can get a combined apache mysql server set up that will install on your machine and parse the pages nicely for you.

But I am buggered if I can remember the name of the script

Monkeyboy — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 15:58:25 +0000

Sweeeet, thanks Megan

Is there a simple way/program for viewing .php pages without php installed. In otherwords on my home PC without having to upload them to the server?

Megan — Mon, 19 Feb 2007 14:03:31 +0000

There are two ways to do this - server side includes or PHP. I forget what the SSI syntax is but you can look it up. For PHP it just looks like this:

<?php
include "yourfile.html";
?>

Of course, now all your files need to have .php extensions.