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Asked: 2026-06-03T03:08:48+00:00

I download xampp 1.7.7 and it has PHP and MySQL. I bought a book

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I download xampp 1.7.7 and it has PHP and MySQL. I bought a book named HeadFirst PHP MySQL. My problem is that I can’t run the examples from the book.

The example files consist of 2 files: one HTML, and one PHP file. The example is like this you fill the form from HTML file then send it to a web server then the php will handle the HTML file then return it to you.

When I filled the form then I click the submit button, it didn’t return what it was supposed to return. What it returns is the actual PHP code.

Do I need to transfer all the files from the book to a webhost so that I cant try the examples I said? How can I run it locally?

UPDATE!!
I tried what anselm said now it says OBJECT not found… url not found then the 404 error.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Your PHP code isn’t being parsed by PHP. Either the Apache config is wrong (unlikely since you installed XAMPP, but you can check by following the steps at http://www.php.net/manual/en/install.windows.apache2.php), or your files aren’t really named .php.

    In Windows, make sure you have file extension viewing turned on, and ensure the file extensions really are .php.

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