Mozilla Firefox and PHP

[Andrew Neiderer]

I apologize for such an elementary question but I am new to PHP.
If there is an FAQ that addresses this please let me know.

I have some PHP that works fine on my Dell Win2K XP when I use "php.exe"
and "php-cgi.exe"; not sure how these executeables got there but
someone must have installed them. But what I need to do is have PHP
scripts run in my Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.4 browser. Currently they don't.

Do I need to install some plugin for my browser? If so can someone
provide a URL? Or if not maybe you could advise me on what needs to be done.

Thank you.

Andrew M. Neiderer
neiderer@arl.ar my.mil
US Army Research Laboratory

[davek]

Re: Mozilla Firefox and PHP

Andrew Neiderer wrote:

But what I need to do is have PHP
scripts run in my Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.4 browser. Currently they don't.

You need to save the files in your web server, in the appropriate
folder.

eg I'm using phpdev (bundled apache web server + php + mysql) so would
save them in c:/phpdev/www

d.

[Rik]

Re: Mozilla Firefox and PHP

Andrew Neiderer wrote:

I apologize for such an elementary question but I am new to PHP.
If there is an FAQ that addresses this please let me know.
>
I have some PHP that works fine on my Dell Win2K XP when I use
"php.exe"
and "php-cgi.exe"; not sure how these executeables got there but
someone must have installed them. But what I need to do is have PHP
scripts run in my Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.4 browser. Currently they
don't.
>
Do I need to install some plugin for my browser? If so can someone
provide a URL? Or if not maybe you could advise me on what needs to
be done.

Run a local webserver (like Apache), and open the pages in your browser. It
isn;t actually the browser that's running them, but the webserver offcourse.
To my knowledge browsers cannot run PHP.

XAMP is a nice package that will install Apache, PHP & MySQL in one go
without much hassle for testing at home.

Grtz,
--
Rik Wasmus

[Richard Levasseur]

Re: Mozilla Firefox and PHP


Rik wrote:

Andrew Neiderer wrote:

I apologize for such an elementary question but I am new to PHP.
If there is an FAQ that addresses this please let me know.

I have some PHP that works fine on my Dell Win2K XP when I use
"php.exe"
and "php-cgi.exe"; not sure how these executeables got there but
someone must have installed them. But what I need to do is have PHP
scripts run in my Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.4 browser. Currently they
don't.

Do I need to install some plugin for my browser? If so can someone
provide a URL? Or if not maybe you could advise me on what needs to
be done.

>
Run a local webserver (like Apache), and open the pages in your browser. It
isn;t actually the browser that's running them, but the webserver offcourse.
To my knowledge browsers cannot run PHP.
>
XAMP is a nice package that will install Apache, PHP & MySQL in one go
without much hassle for testing at home.
>
Grtz,
--
Rik Wasmus

Actually, that could be a useful plugin for FF. Have it invoke php.exe
if you were accessing the PHP file locally. Sure, the ideas is riddled
with potential security holes, but it might be handy. In fact, it'd be
really nifty to make it an integrated debugger, so while the page is
loading it'll break out and let you play with things as the page loads.

[Anonymous]

Re: Mozilla Firefox and PHP

Andrew Neiderer wrote:

>
I apologize for such an elementary question but I am new to PHP.
If there is an FAQ that addresses this please let me know.
>
I have some PHP that works fine on my Dell Win2K XP when I use "php.exe"
and "php-cgi.exe"; not sure how these executeables got there but
someone must have installed them. But what I need to do is have PHP
scripts run in my Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.4 browser. Currently they don't.

And they never will. ;-)

PHP isn't run by browsers, like Javascript. It's run on the webserver.

You need a local webserver with PHP support and then point your browser
to 'localhost'.

>
Do I need to install some plugin for my browser? If so can someone
provide a URL? Or if not maybe you could advise me on what needs to be done.

Install and configure a local webserver. If you don't want the hassle of
installing and configuring all the needed parts yourself (You are going
to need at least Apache and PHP, most likely also a database server like
MySQL, if the scripts use databases.) you can go for one of the
preconfigured all-in-one packages like XAMPP, which you can find here:

http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html

These are perfectly ok, if you just want to test some scripts by other
people. However, if you get into serious developing yourself I would
advise you to install all packages yourself from scratch. That way you
will learn how everything works together and you can also choose which
version of which packages you want to run.

[Alvaro G. Vicario]

Re: Mozilla Firefox and PHP

*** Richard Levasseur escribió/wrote (31 Jul 2006 10:25:12 -0700):

Actually, that could be a useful plugin for FF. Have it invoke php.exe
if you were accessing the PHP file locally. Sure, the ideas is riddled
with potential security holes, but it might be handy.

I haven't written many web apps that can run out of the server context:
most of then depend on $_SERVER or $_POST.

It maight be useful for shell scripts but... once again, I write scripts to
run in console :)


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[Roman Ziak]

Re: Mozilla Firefox and PHP

Anonymous wrote:

Andrew Neiderer wrote:

>I apologize for such an elementary question but I am new to PHP.
>If there is an FAQ that addresses this please let me know.
>>
>I have some PHP that works fine on my Dell Win2K XP when I use "php.exe"
>and "php-cgi.exe"; not sure how these executeables got there but
>someone must have installed them. But what I need to do is have PHP
>scripts run in my Mozilla Firefox 1.5.0.4 browser. Currently they don't.

>
And they never will. ;-)
>
PHP isn't run by browsers, like Javascript. It's run on the webserver.

PHP is a general purpose scripting language as is JavaScript. PHP is
*usually* run on server side and JS in the browser.

PHP for Windows supports ActiveScript and that makes it possible to host
it in browser supporting this interface (e.g. IE). On the other hand
JavaScript has been used as server side scripting (ASP, GoAhead embedded
server, etc.)

Back to original question, it will require certain development effort to
plug PHP as alternative scripting engine into Firefox. Source code for
both is available ...

Roman