Thanks a million, Kerri! That helps a lot.

On 3/18/06 3:50 PM, "Kerri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 
> Allen Watson wrote:
> 
>> No one has really addressed the primary question: Why doesn't php code get
>> executed when previewing a .php page in BBEdit, but _does_ get executed when
>> viewed in a browser with http://localhost/~username/file.path?
>> 
>> It seems to me that executing php code is a province of the apache server I
>> am running; BBEdit knows nothing about php. So, although I find this
>> inconvenient, it makes perfect sense to me, and I just save the file, switch
>> to the browser, and refresh...I wish it could be easier.
>>  
>> 
> It is. :-)
> 
> Go to Preferences --> HTML Websites. Click the 'Add' button to make a
> new website project, and set the 'local site root' to the directory
> where your files are on your hard drive. You'll see, at the bottom, 'Use
> local preview server'. If you check that box and set it to
> http://localhost/, it will run your files through your local Apache
> installation, parsing the PHP (since your local Apache seems configured
> to parse PHP already) before displaying the result in BBEdit's preview
> window. AND the live updating still works, which is tres cool.
> 
> --Kerri
> 

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