PHP emulation

[1Yeoj1]

I am trying to test a PHP document on Firefox using Bluefish Editor. When I click test it immediately tries to get me to download the PHP file but does not display it at all. I am not sure if I over looked a setting or if I need to download something or what...

Yeoj

[cybergalvez]

I am trying to test a PHP document on Firefox using Bluefish Editor. When I click test it immediately tries to get me to download the PHP file but does not display it at all. I am not sure if I over looked a setting or if I need to download something or what...

Yeoj

I'm not sure bluefish will do what you want. PHP files need to be interpreted by php before any valid html is rendered. So you need to upload them to a webserver with php enabled before you get to actually see what you have coded

[1Yeoj1]

I found the answer to running PHP. I got a LAMP stack after following Ubuntu's help site.

Yeoj

[na5h]

XAMPP is a pretty useful tool for testing websites...