Opening .php files

jk1972

Hi there,

For some reason on my PC I can't open .php file in Internet Explorer or preview it in IE using Dreamweaver. Even if the server side isn't working I should still be able to open .php files in IE - nothing seems to hapen even if I right click on a .php file and select open with Internet Explorer - has anyone seen this problem and have a fix ?

Thanks

The-Master

Even if you got it to open it would probable just open for you to save. You need to upload to a server or somewhere with php installed because the php script is loaded by this and then outputs the results to the browser.

jk1972

Thanks for the reply but I still need to understand why the .php files don't open - I have installed php and IIS and the files still don't open

Weedpacket

jk1972 wrote:
nothing seems to hapen even if I right click on a .php file and select open with Internet Explorer

Why would you want to? IE wouldn't know what to do with the file anyway. Even if you tried it would probably just ask you where you want to save it or if you want to open it in whatever application you've got associated with .php files.

I have installed php and IIS and the files still don't open

What happens when you try? How are you trying?

bradgrafelman

jk1972 wrote:
I still need to understand why the .php files don't open

Because using "Open With > Internet Explorer" doesn't pass the .php file to the PHP parser (which you say you have "installed php and IIS"... does this mean you've integrated PHP with IIS via the ISAPI module or CGI binary?).

jk1972 wrote:
the files still don't open

How are you accessing the files? http://localhost/example.php ?

EDIT: Also, please do not cross post the same post across different forums.