[RESOLVED] Easy Web-Form question

[chaders]

Hello all!
I have a basic web-form. And i'm building it locally on my computer. When i open my html page, fill in the form and click submit, the web browser directs to my .php script, which is what i wanted i think. But then instead of running the script and sending me an email with the form results, it gives me the windows, "file download" window, and asks me if i want to download the .php file or open it. It's already local on my computer! why won't it just run the script and display the message i've coded in? are there settings i need to set on my machine to understand .php files?

i'm uber-confused. Also i think it maybe that i told windows to always open that file extention with notepad, will that affect why its trying to download the file, rather than run the scirpt?

[Kudose]

Is PHP installed on your windows machine? PHP is not native to any operating system but the latest Fecore Core releases. HTML on the other hand is handled by the client operating system, so how it handles HTML files is up to it (which is why you can view the HTML files on your windows machine).

Also, setting your computer to open .php files in Notepad is fine. It is Apache or IIS that you need to set to serve php file as application/httpd-x-php