Can't view php on Netscape (newbie)

**Pandora** · Jun 19, 2001, 12:19

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

**wmk86** · Jun 19, 2001, 12:22

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.

**bman** · Jun 19, 2001, 12:24

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.

**v-Trance** · Jun 19, 2001, 12:24

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.

**wmk86** · Jun 19, 2001, 12:29

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/

(lol, we all responded within 2 mins

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**Pandora** · Jun 19, 2001, 12:41

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

**wmk86** · Jun 19, 2001, 12:44

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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**freddydoesphp** · Jun 19, 2001, 12:48

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.php

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