FrontPage 2002 and PHP

reneetoth

I'm setting up a members only site to sell my embroidery designs on the internet. After researching hosting services, I've noticed the only servers the subscription/security programs seem to run on in Unix/Linux.

So I think I've decided to move my website to a Linux hoster ... which means the database on the back end of my members site has to be changed to mySql from Microsoft Access ... no big deal I guess.

So during my research, I found out mySql is free and so was PHP which would give me all this really neat functionality I could build into the website and Apache was free too.

So I also went out and got Apache and loaded the web server on my computer, loaded mySql on my computer, and loaded php on my computer. Apache seems to be running fine, mySql seems to be running (I haven't created any databases yet), and I tested php and I got that funky setup screen to come up so I'm assuming it's running ok. BTW, I've got a Dell running Windows XP.

Here's my problem .... I love the way my website looks from FrontPage 2002 .... so I though I could go into FrontPage 2002, clicked on Insert ... Web Component ... Advanced Controls ... HTML ... and type some test code that I got from one of the PHP books I picked up. When I preview in my browser, the HTML line shows up but the one between the php thingies doesn't.

Is there a trick to getting php to show up inside FrontPage? I left the extension of the page as .htm. Any help would be immensely appreciated!

Renee

stolzyboy

if you are typing it in the source code of the wysiwyg editor, you still need a browser to view it, cuz it has to be parsed by the php server, so open up your browser and go to http://localhost/whatever.php, simple enough

reneetoth

Yup, that's what I did ...

but I solved one problem ...

I added into my apache config file the .htm and .html extension to the line that identifies php files so it would go through looking for php code....

then I pulled it back up in my browser, and wallah!!!

But what's weird is that the rest of the page wasn't there ... I mean the FrontPage part. Is it because I don't have FrontPage extensions loaded or am I doing something else wrong?

I went searching to see if I could load FrontPage 2002 extensions on my Apache web server I loaded on my Windows XP machine and from the Microsoft site it looks like the extensions for Apache are only UNIX and Apache isn't listed under Windows machines.... what's up with that????

reneetoth

Duh, it must have had something to do with me only putting the one page in my .htdocs folder and pulling it up on my browser. When I took the entire FrontPage 2002 web folder and put it there, the rest of the page showed just fine and the php code worked!!!!!

I'm so pumped up about this .... I'll be building my mySql database today and start writing the php stuff this weekend..... long live php and mySql!!!