ok sorry, localhost works

opening a .php page does not, it just displays the code on the screen in the browser as if i was looking at it in the text file.

crap. i must add this has been the most unsettling experience for a programmer. What ever happened to quality and integrity in software these days??

still i am told that this is a language i need to master, which im looking forward to, if i can get the bloody thing going!