Posted by Peter Fox on 01/09/06 11:28

Following on from 's message. . .
>I am new to PHP, trying to learn the ropes if you will. Now, I
>published a .php file to a web server through FTP about an hour ago,
>expecting it to be rendered like an HTML file, except with a .php
>extension. I was surprised to see it came out looking like a text file.
>Can anyone help me with this, or tell me what I did wrong? Thanks.
>
>Aaron Kinney
>

The web server doesn't know about php. It is an add-on _at the server_
which many web hosts charge extra for. Either get your host to support
php or set up your own for development purposes - (That's not a single
button click but there's plenty of documentation.)



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