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Hi There I wonder if someone could help.
I have been using wysiwyg web editor recently and when I save files as php and save to xampp root folder php files open in a text editor rather than display as a web page. Any help would be appreciated. thank you.

How do you try to "open" saved php files?

When I publish them to the root the prog then asks if you want to preview which opens up chrome browser.

And which url does your browser tell you at the time you see the code in your chrome browser?

Which WYSIWYG editor do you use?

Hi it says c:/xampp/htdocs/testsite/page1.php all i get is the code printed on the page now.

I am using wysiwyg web builder http://wysiwygwebbuilder.com/

thanks for any help.

Thats the problem. Wysiwygwebbuilder is not an php IDE, it can only work efficiently with client side scripts like HTML, CSS, JS, etc.

Read this, especially the note at the end:
https://www.wysiwygwebbuilder.com/forms_php.html

That’s poor and disappointing. Can you recommend a better ide I’m rubbish at coding.

morayweb wrote:That’s poor and disappointing. Can you recommend a better ide I’m rubbish at coding.

There is no IDE that can replace the needs of beeing a good programmer. PHP is a programming language like C or Pascal etc. which requires knowledge of structured programming.

Ok thanks again.

While there are a few WYSIWYG Editors for PHP like Dreamweaver, nuSphere or Frontpage, none of them is really good.
If you are not good at programming there are plenty of ways to learn it.
Or you are limited to use any website generators like https://www.wix.com
Or you had to find a friend or a paid coder to do that work for you.

PHP is not rocket science. You can get first motivating results in an hour.
PHP is easy to learn but harder to master.