Firefox 3 displays the php code when pages launched from dreamweaver 8

Question

The problem seems to relate to files opening as —
file:///C:/localweb/ .... when sent from Dreamweaver 8.0 to Firefox
The first html/php page loads correctly from dreamweaver as
processed HTML, a second page linked from either an HTML or php
page also loads correctly, but selecting any link from that or
subsequent pages displays the full php code instead of processed
html layout - so this appears to be a third level or greater
problem.
If I manually substitute -
http://localhost/ — the problem
does not arise.
This is a problem with version 3 of firefox, all previous
versions I used worked fine with both — file:///C:/localweb/
and
http://localhost/
Both prefixes also appear with pure HTML sites, but they load
and function correctly.
Not every php site I have loads with file:///C:/localweb/, so
I am wondering if this relates to something in the php code or
Dreamweaver - I have conn.php set to:
mysql_connect("localhost", "root", "") or die(mysql_error());
I use winxp and have xampp installed - everything worked fine
until I installed Firefox 3

Answer 1

> but selecting any link from that or subsequent pages
You are being confused by a) not understanding root relative
vs document
relative links, and b) not understanding how DW previews
files.
If I have a document with a link to an image that looks like
this -
<img src="/images/foo.gif"...
That's what's called a root relative link.
If I preview that document in DW, then the browser gets the
document, sees
the leading "/" and reads that as the root of the hard drive,
since the
browser has no idea where the root of the site is. Thus, the
image is
broken in the preview.
If I have temp files enabled, then DW will secretly convert
the file being
previewed into a temporary file, and hand that to the
browser. This temp
file has had all root relative links converted to document
relative links
(as you will see by looking at the code in the browser), and
has had all
include files actually embedded in the page, and has had all
external CSS
and js markup embedded in the page. In other words, DW has
made the
document into a stand-alone page.
If you do not have temp files enabled, all of these links
would be broken on
preview.
Now - if you are using root relative links, AND you have temp
files enabled,
AND you click away from the previewed document, then all of
your links will
be broken, since DW has not made that linked file into a temp
file. This is
what you are seeing.
So - if you want to click away on preview, then you must use
document
relative links for the site -
<img src="../images/foo.gif"... (for example)
These will still work on preview since the browser knows how
to determine
the current file's location and how to follow that path.
Make sense?
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"gbiras" <[email protected]> wrote in
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> The problem seems to relate to files opening as ?
file:///C:/localweb/
> ....
> when sent from Dreamweaver 8.0 to Firefox
>
> The first html/php page loads correctly from dreamweaver
as processed
> HTML, a
> second page linked from either an HTML or php page also
loads correctly,
> but
> selecting any link from that or subsequent pages
displays the full php
> code
> instead of processed html layout - so this appears to be
a third level or
> greater problem.
>
> If I manually substitute -
http://localhost/ ? the problem does
not arise.
>
> This is a problem with version 3 of firefox, all
previous versions I used
> worked fine with both ? file:///C:/localweb/ and
http://localhost/
>
> Both prefixes also appear with pure HTML sites, but they
load and function
> correctly.
>
> Not every php site I have loads with
file:///C:/localweb/, so I am
> wondering
> if this relates to something in the php code or
Dreamweaver - I have
> conn.php
> set to:
>
> mysql_connect("localhost", "root", "") or
die(mysql_error());
>
> I use winxp and have xampp installed - everything worked
fine until I
> installed Firefox 3
>