Need some help with PHP

tarasmuz · 02-07-2013, 09:27 PM

Hi everyone,

I'm new to php and I have no idea about it. I'm trying to understand it by looking at the source codes of other peoples work and I got this small problem when I open a php file in my browser. This is what I see when I press an action button on my html page, which redirects to this php file:

It might be very stupid, so please don't laugh

abduraooft · 02-08-2013, 10:55 AM

You can't run PHP by just opening it in a browser window. For that, you need to have an apache server running in background and a HTTP path like localhost Or 127.0.0.1

Have a look at http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html

tarasmuz · 02-08-2013, 12:07 PM

Thanks. However I still can't get where I should put an SQL file?

mlseim · 02-08-2013, 12:23 PM

Do you have a website hosted online by a shared webhost? Or do you have your own server loaded on your computer?

tarasmuz · 02-08-2013, 12:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mlseim

Do you have a website hosted online by a shared webhost? Or do you have your own server loaded on your computer?

I've installed XAMP as advised and it now works perfectly fine, but I don't understand where to put my SQL files for my website