[RESOLVED] Explorer can't open .php

gregoryhu

I've written a html-php script ,saved it as example.php
but when I try to open it with iexplorer , explorer asks me if I want to OPEN it or SAVE it.
when I press the OPEN button it asks me again .
when I open it with NETSCAPE it shows me the code instead of execute it.

what is wrong?

the script goes like this:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC
"-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title> TITLE </title>
</head>

<body bgcolor="white">

<?php

include 'db.inc';

function function1()

.....

}//end of function
.....
?>
</body>
</html>[/COLOR]

leatherback

Sounds to me like your php is not properly installed.
Do you have other php pages which open correctly on your webserver?

Piranha

Do you double-click to open the file or do you use the url and type something like http://localhost/index.php? It won't work if you do the first, only if you do the later.

gregoryhu

I installed microsoft php 5.2.0(with insatller) and selected IIS /PW3 web server.
i'm testing the files in my computer i don't upload anything(I'm not hosted anywhere).
Do I need a web server(virtual) to execute php files?

Piranha: I'm doing both. I get the same result

bradgrafelman

gregoryhu wrote:
Do I need a web server(virtual) to execute php files?

Technically, no, you could use the CLI to parse PHP files, but the general answer is: Yes.

Do you have IIS installed? If so, PHP was apparently not configured correctly. You might try installing it manually (manual page [man]install.windows[/man] will help with this), or using a simplified installer, e.g. XAMP, WAMP, etc.

shauny17

Or alternatively you could switch to Apache, a more secure and reliable webserver unlike IIS.

Setting up PHP is easier on Apache, and you can easily allow/deny certain modules