Re: Beginner's Teething Problems

Hi Lindsay, > These probably sound like really trivial and stupid questions to you but I > am a newcomer in this field. I have literally started looking at PHP this > weekend as I have been given a project in work to do and PHP seemed like the > best option. I have some previous programming experince so not a complete > novice at this type of thing. =it is said that there is no such thing as a stupid question - only stupid answers. Sometimes the newer members of the list stretch my belief in this - but not in this case! > I have been looking through beginner's tutorials on sites and invested in a > couple of books, but I am having problems. I have come to realise that there > are two different ways of doing PHP. You can embed it into you html file and > save it as html or write the code and save it as .php file. I have copied > expamples letter by letter and cannot get anything to work. Not sure why but > I am pretty sure it's something stupid I have missed. I have tried creating > html files with the PHP embedded into them and also saving the code ad .php > files. When I try and open them in my IE browser window I get nothing. > Anyone any ideas what I may be missing. I am getting rather frustrated with > it now. It sounds as if you are opening the .htm[l] or .php file in your browser. Remember that PHP requires server-side processing, so a page must be called from a web server (which is in turn interfacing to PHP). Can you set up your own web server, or a virtual server somewhere? Let us know if that's not 'it'! =dn