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Jun 19, 2001, 12:19 #1SitePoint Member
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Can't view php on Netscape (newbie)
I've been learning from Mr. Yank's instructions on http://www.webmasterbase.com/article.php/228/19 and I got stuck on "Your first php script" a few pages later (http://www.webmasterbase.com/article.php/228/132). I typed this code:
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Today's Date</TITLE><
/HEAD>
<BODY>
<P>Today's Date (according to this Web server) is<?php
echo( date("l, F dS Y.") );
?>
</BODY>
</HTML>
in notepad and saved it as today.php. Then I proceed to open it in netscape except nothing would open! Netscape gives me this box telling me that it is opening today.php with NETSCAPE.EXE then it asks me if I want to open this file or save it to disk at which point I would pick "open it" and then another box like this one would pop up, only that the file in question is no longer today.php, but a seemingly random php file with a name like V1I02OIT.php. And this goes on like some infinite recursion.
Please help!
Your humble newbie
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Jun 19, 2001, 12:22 #2SitePoint Enthusiast
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did you upload it to a PHP enabled server? Cause php is a server side language, you need to upload it to a php enabled server.
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Jun 19, 2001, 12:24 #3I am the night...
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to view the PHP file you have to have it on a server that supports PHP, you can't just open it on your local machine.
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Jun 19, 2001, 12:24 #4SitePoint Member
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Are you uploading it to a server which is able to parse PHP files? If not, are you running a server locally which is able to parse PHP? You can't just open it with your browser like you can HTML files.
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Jun 19, 2001, 12:29 #5SitePoint Enthusiast
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if this is the case then you can use www.f2s.com it is a free host that supports php and mysql. Unfortuanitly, there are drawbacks, f2s is really slow/
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Jun 19, 2001, 12:41 #6SitePoint Member
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newbie stuck again
ok, after hearing all these tips, I proceeded to ftp today.php to aol, but it did the same thing so I guess it doens't support php?
Would having Xitami help? I've configured php to be one of its filters by following the installation process and I don't really know what the next step is to see a working php script...
Thanks again
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Jun 19, 2001, 12:44 #7SitePoint Enthusiast
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Havent used aol's ftp but they probably dont support php, almost sure they dont.
And i have no clue what Xitami is
someone help me out 
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Jun 19, 2001, 12:48 #8Dumb PHP codin' cat
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Xitami is a web server so yes it will work. You need to access your php page through a browser using http:// not using File > Open
so if your script was located in your web root(whatever you set it to be in Xitami), then you should type something like http://localhost/page.phpPlease don't PM me with questions.
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