, Jul 15, 2008 at 9:13 AM, emailme992000 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm a total newbie to XAMPP.
>>
>> I downloaded XAMPP onto my Win XP Pro SP2 machine.
>>
>> It installs ok. Everything seems to work. Apache server is running.
>> MySQL is running. PHP is running. PHPmyAdmin works fine. I can
>> create databases and tables etc. using phpMyAdmin ok.
>>
>> But, when I use Notepad or Wordpad to create a little test file, any
>> HTML statements in the file come up in Firefox ok but...none of the
>> PHP code between the <?php and ?> tags executes at all. No error
>> messages are given...nothing...as if the PHP code was not there at all.
>>
>> I'm saving the test file into c:\xampp\htdocs if that makes any
>> difference.
>>
>> Anybody have any idea what is going wrong here? This is driving me
>> crazy. I'd appreciate any help anyone can give.
>>
>> Many thanks.
>>
>> Joe
I have a real dumb question, but gotta be sure...are you saving the files
with the .php extension?
