Frontpage, Winrar.zip and .php files

[Price_Whelan]

Hello again! Beware novice at work - I am currently building a very
simple MSfrontpage site for my future self employment - not from a template.
I have a Winrar.zip folder that has a complete website in it that requires a
Database on host etc - I do not know how to preview this site, all the files
appear to have the extension .php - Can anyone tell me what program/how i can
preview the site and if i will be able to incorporate it into a frontpage
site - or failing that, is it possible to get a host that takes both the
frontpage and .php format, load both sites up with a link from one of the
frontpage pages to this complete site, so that it looks incorporated and have
that under one singular domain name - i.e www.domain.com for frontpage and
www.domain.com/phpsiteindex for the complete site i have. Any help and
explanations in leighmans terms would be greatly appreciated, Cheers Paul

 

[Stefan B Rusynko]

..php files require a hosted server running server side PHP language
(plus what ever type of DB the php code is using - usually mySQL)
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| Hello again! Beware novice at work - I am currently building a very
| simple MSfrontpage site for my future self employment - not from a template.
| I have a Winrar.zip folder that has a complete website in it that requires a
| Database on host etc - I do not know how to preview this site, all the files
| appear to have the extension .php - Can anyone tell me what program/how i can
| preview the site and if i will be able to incorporate it into a frontpage
| site - or failing that, is it possible to get a host that takes both the
| frontpage and .php format, load both sites up with a link from one of the
| frontpage pages to this complete site, so that it looks incorporated and have
| that under one singular domain name - i.e www.domain.com for frontpage and
| www.domain.com/phpsiteindex for the complete site i have. Any help and
| explanations in leighmans terms would be greatly appreciated, Cheers Paul

 

[Price_Whelan]

Yep Cheers, it is mySQL thats required - But just to clarify as I am a
complete novice, i would appreciate it if you could expand a bit further on
the following!

Is there hosting available that will take this PHP site and MySQL database,
as well as the frontpage site itself, in order that i can have a link from
one of my pages in the frontpage site to the PHP website, under the same
domain name - OR - is this not possible - will i need 2 domains - 2 types of
host and a hyperlink between the two????

If it is possible with one host, one domain - can you please tell me how to
go about this and what i should be looking out for on the hosting package -
bearing in mind the PHP website will link to Paypal and so will the Frontpage
site in a different area.

Thanks again for your continued help

Cheers Paul