note 23939 added to getting-started

I am a sad beginner of PHP the documentation is soooo bad in the internet. I think I won't use php anymore. its too hard to install, now i have installed it, but i don't know what to do. i have 2 files. test.php and test.htm if i open test.htm i only can see everithing but code written in php. if i open test.php i only see a very short life dos-window and then it disappears. what can i do? please help me -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/getting-started.php http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+23939 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+23939 http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+23939