[Q] How to setup DW to execute php scripts

Hi,

I know this must be really obvious to many of you, but I have been unable to
configure DW (using [preferences] or [site->edit]) so that it will execute a
php script from a <form action="foo.php"...> tag. When the submit button is
clicked the php file is displayed, rather than executed.

Here's the HTML code:

<form action="update_river_measurements.php" method="post" name="form1"
target="mainFrame">
<select name="interval_period">
<option>Select interval</option>
<option value="2">2 days</option>
<option value="4">4 days</option>
<option value="8">8 days</option>
<option value="31">31 days</option>
</select>
<input type="submit" value="Update Database">
</form>

When the [Update Database] button is clicked, the file specified by the
action parameter is displayed, rather than executed.

My dev machine is a Windows XP system with Apache, PHP, and MySQL installed.
I have confirmed that my Apache-PHP configuration is correctly configured.
For example, PHP correctly executes the script when I pass
"update_river_measurements.php" to IExplore.exe from the command line. Also,
when I upload these local files to my ISP, the PHP also executes correctly.

Any suggestions as to how to get DW to execute these files would be
appreciated.

Cheers,

Michael

Michael T. Peterson wrote:

Any suggestions as to how to get DW to execute these files would be
appreciated.

How do you have your testing server defined? Make sure that you put
http://localhost/ or whatever you have set for the site in Apache as the
URL prefix.


Gary