Using the prowser to view a file on your file system will just show the content. The browser does not have any knowledge of the PHP parser.
A web server on the other hand will be able to run the requested script through a parser an send the converted document (usually as html) to the browser fopr display. The binary version of PHP on Win32 works fine with IIS, Apache and other web servers available on that platform. - Frank > Can someone tell me how to use this php.exe file?? The docs are totally > confusing. > > Okay - I run a rented unix server that supports php, no problem. But I want > to test my site files offline on my win 2k machine. Online IE displays the > php test files just fine, but offline it ignores the php content entirely. I > want to browse to d:\test.php, for instance -- without using the w2k server > stuff, just browse to file. > > I thought the php download of windows binaries was supposed to fix this, but > I can't get it to do anything. > > Tom > > > > > -- > PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
