Posted by Richard Levasseur on 07/31/06 17:25

Rik wrote:
> Andrew Neiderer wrote:
> > I apologize for such an elementary question but I am new to PHP.
> > If there is an FAQ that addresses this please let me know.
> >
> > I have some PHP that works fine on my Dell Win2K XP when I use
> > "php.exe"
> > and "php-cgi.exe"; not sure how these executeables got there but
> > someone must have installed them. But what I need to do is have PHP
> > scripts run in my Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.4 browser. Currently they
> > don't.
> >
> > Do I need to install some plugin for my browser? If so can someone
> > provide a URL? Or if not maybe you could advise me on what needs to
> > be done.
>
> Run a local webserver (like Apache), and open the pages in your browser. It
> isn;t actually the browser that's running them, but the webserver offcourse.
> To my knowledge browsers cannot run PHP.
>
> XAMP is a nice package that will install Apache, PHP & MySQL in one go
> without much hassle for testing at home.
>
> Grtz,
> --
> Rik Wasmus

Actually, that could be a useful plugin for FF. Have it invoke php.exe
if you were accessing the PHP file locally. Sure, the ideas is riddled
with potential security holes, but it might be handy. In fact, it'd be
really nifty to make it an integrated debugger, so while the page is
loading it'll break out and let you play with things as the page loads.

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