Preview PHP page in Browser

[deacon]

I have been working on php files in Front Page 2003 using the "open as html"
option. This allows me to edit the html portions of the page using the Front
Page WYSIWYG interface. When I am all done working on the page, I would like
to preview it in the browser but it displays in "code view" in IE when the
browser opens. Is there any way around this or do I have to publish the page
to the server to actually see what it will look like in the IE browser?

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

You have to publish/upload the page to a server that has support for PHP. Since PHP is a server-side
scripting language it must be viewed from a web server.

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[deacon]

That was my initial thought too, however, after messing around with this a
bit I found that the page displays ok with a PHP extension in both the
Netscape and Mozilla Fire Fox browsers so I am wondering why that is?

 

[Thomas A. Rowe]

At least on my desktop under Windows XP with MS Picture It! and MS Digital Image Pro installed, PHP
is one of the default document types for these two application, so a file with a PHP extensions will
not open in IE, but can be associated to open in either Opera or FireFox, etc.

IE has no problem when the PHP page is accessed from a web server that has PHP support installed.
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[deacon]

Thanks TA........Since I can view the page in Mozilla, that will work for me.
I was just curios about the difference in the two browsers.

 

[Bob Lehmann]

The browser should make no difference as PHP is a server-side technology.

Are you sure you're viewing http://something in IE?

Bob Lehmann

 

[P C]

What people meant is that in order for the script to run and the page to
display correctly, you must load the page through the server in order
for the script to be executed.

All browsers can display pages with script although they may have
different behaviors when deciding what to do with it (ignore it or
display it).

....PC