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ricardo_78
January 9th, 2009, 09:38 AM
I have installed Bluefish and it looks pretty good.

I am tryingto set up external browser support to view php files root /opt/lampp/htdocs/


The following:


firefox -new-window http://localhost/%s&

gives me a newwindow with http:/localhost/opt/lampp/htdocs/myfile.php where the file I wantto view is myfile.php.

Almost there but I need to remove /opt/lampp/htdocs/. I understand


sed s /opt/lampp/htdocs/

is part of the answer but I am not sure how to apply it...

Can anyone throw me a bone on this one?

Peter76
January 9th, 2009, 07:12 PM
I guess what you want is to actually see how myfile.php is rendered in your browser. This is not possible the way you are trying now; you need a server to process the php and feed it to your browser. So you either have to install a LAMP stack or upload the file to a webserver.

Good luck

ricardo_78
January 9th, 2009, 08:50 PM
I have got a lamp stack installed and php working in directory

/opt/lampp/htdocs/

Peter76
January 9th, 2009, 09:18 PM
If you installed your LAMP stack from the Ubuntu repositories ( which you should ), you should put your files in /var/www . When you point your browser to localhost then, your page should turn up

johnl
January 9th, 2009, 09:32 PM
firefox -new-window `echo "http://localhost/%s" | sed s/"opt\/lampp\/htdocs\/"/""/`


I think this might do what you are asking. Depending on whether or not bluefish supports backticks in this context.

ricardo_78
January 10th, 2009, 01:01 AM
Peter 76: Agree that would be neater way of organising things.

Johnl: Brilliant works with only proviso not opening a new window in foreground.....many thanks