Difficulty opening a php file in a browser

Hi thanks for your ideas in advance.
I am creating a new opening page (using html) for a php site.
I can't do it in php since i don't know a lick of it. The client
wants their current php site to remain intact while I add a new
html landing page to the site. They want to link from this new
opening page to the current site they have.
There is not the usual index.html file in the current root
folder. There is a file called index.php. When I open this with
Firefox it displays only code. So this is one problem - I don't
know how to link to a php page so it displays correctly.
Second question is how can I create an html page to stand as
an opener to this php site, without recoding the index.php? If I
must recode it - is that easy enough to do?
Thank you kindly!

You could rename the index.php file to something else like
index2.php,
search and hope you found all links to that file and changed
them, then
upload your new index.html file. But i don't have high hopes.
Make backup
copies of the site folder so the client isn't worse off.
Alan
Adobe Community Expert, dreamweaver
http://www.adobe.com/communities/experts/

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