John wrote: I have a real dumb question, but gotta be sure...are you saving the files with the .php extension?
John, Not a dumb question at all! In fact, you were on the right track in that I was making a VERY basic mistake. I've got the solution...and I am so dumb...I'm embarrassed. Yes, I was saving the files with the .php extension and saving them into c:\xampp\htdocs......but... when I was trying to open the files in Firefox I was clicking FILE|OPEN and navigating to c:\xampp\htdocs and selecting filename.php. This, I know now, is NOT the way to do it...if you want the PHP code to work. Today I learned that I must open the files by typing into the Firefox address bar: http://localhost/filename.php Now all is well and my PHP code is running great! Thanks very much for your help. Joe --- In [email protected], John Magee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > , Jul 15, 2008 at 9:13 AM, emailme992000 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> I'm a total newbie to XAMPP. > >> > >> I downloaded XAMPP onto my Win XP Pro SP2 machine. > >> > >> It installs ok. Everything seems to work. Apache server is running. > >> MySQL is running. PHP is running. PHPmyAdmin works fine. I can > >> create databases and tables etc. using phpMyAdmin ok. > >> > >> But, when I use Notepad or Wordpad to create a little test file, any > >> HTML statements in the file come up in Firefox ok but...none of the > >> PHP code between the <?php and ?> tags executes at all. No error > >> messages are given...nothing...as if the PHP code was not there at all. > >> > >> I'm saving the test file into c:\xampp\htdocs if that makes any > >> difference. > >> > >> Anybody have any idea what is going wrong here? This is driving me > >> crazy. I'd appreciate any help anyone can give. > >> > >> Many thanks. > >> > >> Joe > I have a real dumb question, but gotta be sure...are you saving the files > with the .php extension? >
