First, I think templating is a nice way to go. My question is about the index.php, I use netbeans along with xampp and when I hit “run project” the project folder shows up along with the index.php at the end. Can someone shed some light if this would be natural in some instances, I am just not sure. Please help, thanks
Your question is a little hard to understand. In XAMPP, your PHP site should be able to appear in the browser just as it would online. If that’ not the case, something has presumably gone awry.
I appreciate your effort to help.
my question is about “hiding the seams”, when I use my NetBeans IDE to publish a site via Xampp Apache it inevitably appends the index.php of root folder. I wondered if anyone else experiences the same and if there was something I could do different. This is taking hiding the seams extremely seriously.
Thank You
Are you talking about viewing the site locally, on your PC? Either way, you should be able to point the browser to the root folder and just see that in the address bar, without index.php at the end. But you are still being pretty vague—at least to me. “Hiding the seams” doesn’t really mean anything specific. 
Sorry Again Ralph, Hiding the Seams is something that I read about in Kevin Yank`s PHP & MySQL Novice to Ninja book. I got it though I understand what I need to do. Thank You Once Again!!