Viewing .php files locally

Sounds like a web server problem, not a Safari problem?

If using Apache, you will need to to add or de-comment

AddType application/x-httpd-php .php

to your httpd.conf (usually /etc/httpd/httpd.conf )

Did not know it was possible to view .php files locally by browser.

If you have apache and php (both installed by default), why not put the files in you web server folder and view them through the web server?

If you look inside Safari.app: Show Package Contents/Contents/Info.plist, then look under

Root:CFBundleDocumentTypes:8:CFBundleTypeExtensions, you can see a list of supported protocols (maybe if you add php?)

<key>CFBundleTypeExtensions</key>
<array>
<string>html</string>
<string>htm</string>
<string>shtml</string>
<string>jhtml</string>
</array>

/Library/WebServer/Documents/

You have to switch on web sharing (System Preferences -> Sharing -> Personal Web Sharing)

Then just type localhost into browser and you should see the Apach index page.
Best of luck

Odds are you can just copy a PLIST file from another Safari App and replace yours.

As for PHP. Thats the easy part here.
Firstly enable your webserver. Apple Menu -> System Preferences -> Sharing -> Services. Check Personal web sharing and that will enable Apache. Opening the port in your firewall is up to you. If you are worried about someone trying to hack your computer then you might want to close it, but in the long run it won't hurt you to have it open.

To make sure the webserver is running type in to Safari, Firefox, Opera, Cameo, or any other browser installed on your computer. http://127.0.0.1/. You should see a page saying "If you can see this, it means that the installation of the Apache web server software on this system was successful."
If you are on a different computer type in the "IP address" found in Apple Menu -> System Preferences -> Network of the computer that you are enabling Apache on. Depending on your network setup this number may change upon reboot.

Now Apache is running. To place files in your webserver, put them in /Library/WebServer/Documents/. Or you can put files in the sites folder of your home directory. ~/Sites/. Files that you put in your sites folder of your home directory can be accessed by typing in http://127.0.0.1/~<username>/ Where <username> is your username. For example http://127.0.0.1/~frank/. (Or again insted of 127.0.0.1 using your IP address)

From here install PHP from http://entropy.ch/software/macosx/php/. The installer will guide you through the steps of installing PHP.

Once PHP is installed, any file you put in /Library/WebServer/Documents/ or ~/sites/ will be executed if you load them from http://127.0.0.1/<filename>, or from http://127.0.0.1/~<username>/<filename>.


Note thought that any file you just double click on will not be executed. This is because the PHP parsing engine is within Apache, not your web browser.

It should work just fine to use that. If you aren't doing anything fancy then using PHP4 should run just fine. In the long run it shouldn't hurt you to run PHP5, but unless you need it there is no demand for you to upgrade.

Yeah, that would work, but I was hoping for a
solution that wouldn't call for changing the file
names...

I don't think current browsers will do this, but I haven't tried all of them. You could try TextEdit instead, with its prefs set to not ignore rich text commands.

Does anyone know a
workaround for this?

Change the extension temporarily to .html?