On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 20:38:12 +0200 Enrico Tröger enrico.troeger@uvena.de wrote:
| On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 14:03:09 -0400, Lee Underwood leeu@cfl.rr.com | wrote: | | Hi, | | > This might sound like a very basic question but I just started using | > Geany. When you are editing a page (HTML or PHP), what do you do to | > get it to display in a browser so you can see the results? | generally pressing F5 should start your browser pointing to the current | HTML file. Instead of pressing F5 you can also use the file menu | Build->Execute or the Execute icon in the toolbar. | | If it doesn't work open the preferences dialog and the browser setting | in the Tools tab. | | The above should work with any HTML file. | | PHP files can also be executed but by default it is assumed to execute | them directly with the PHP command line interpreter. To open them in a | web browser with a specific URL (file:// isn't suitable in most cases) | you have to edit the filetype definition file for the PHP filetype. | For details of finding and editing this file please read [1]. | There is an example at the end of the file which demonstrates how to | use a local webserver for parsing PHP files. I hope this helps a bit. | | Regards, | Enrico |
Enrico,
Thanks, the F5 worked. Also, I'll check out the file for the PHP files. I guess I'll just start the XAMPP server to run the PHP files. I appreciate the help!
Do you, or anybody else, know of any other Web sites that have tips, etc. for Geany?
Lee