Posted by Anonymous on 12/11/41 11:54

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.

And they never will. ;-)

PHP isn't run by browsers, like Javascript. It's run on the webserver.

You need a local webserver with PHP support and then point your browser
to 'localhost'.

>
> 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.

Install and configure a local webserver. If you don't want the hassle of
installing and configuring all the needed parts yourself (You are going
to need at least Apache and PHP, most likely also a database server like
MySQL, if the scripts use databases.) you can go for one of the
preconfigured all-in-one packages like XAMPP, which you can find here:
http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html

These are perfectly ok, if you just want to test some scripts by other
people. However, if you get into serious developing yourself I would
advise you to install all packages yourself from scratch. That way you
will learn how everything works together and you can also choose which
version of which packages you want to run.

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