Render local PHP files... any fix yet?

Question

So, I read numerous posts on this topic - but they all have been "archived" and cannot be replied to?? I think it is still very important and wonder, does that mean it is dealt with or still a know, ongoing issue I just missed the answer to??
This thread most similarly matches my issue and themost detailed: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=978104
I use Dreamweaver 8 and Safari 2.0.1 on a 10.4.2 System. As others have noted, when I go to drop a PHP file onto Safari, it just renders the source code. But, if I drop it on IE or Opera or FF it renders as expected.
Yes, I have turned on Web Sharing in the System Preferences. Yes, I have turned on PHP (using this simple article http://www.phpmac.com/articles.php?view=225) and verified it by puttng a php file into my "Sites" folder and it renders fine in Safari that way. But, neither have been a solution. Nor is using other lesser supported browsers and what-not as I need to develope for Safari and have 30 or so sites I manage with a local system already in place that worked just fine in 10.3 and Safari from 10.3 - so moving all my stuff to my "Sites" is a no go. And, I believe I read it still is an issue in 10.4.7 - so updating the system is not the answer either.
It is very bothersome to not be able to view my PHP files locally on Safari and have to have to put them on the server to view/test them as that was not the case under Safari under 10.3. The only other way to view them in Safari I have found is by using the Preview feature in Dreamweaver 8 (which no one else mentioned in other threads), BUT if there is a text link (like a 'click here' navigation link) in the page to another PHP file and you click said link, you jut get the source code for that next page as if you dropped the file on Safari. That is weird in itself that through Dreamweaver 8 it makes a Temp file of the PHP file and loads that in Safari just fine!!!! but to actually drop or load the actual PHP file (not the created Temp file).... nothing but source code.
So, any status on this? Still a lingering issue? I wondered if the stop in posting to the topic means people just accepted the bug (I find that hard to believe), or it was fixed (by a hack or by Apple) and I missed it someplace? It does not seem to be a PHP issue (as some reports said initially) as othr browsers on the same system can render the files when dropped on them, but an actual issue with how Safari deals with PHP files now - when it handeled them just fine in 10.3.

Answer 1

Please read the link to the previous closed thread in my first post as it explains it pretty clearly. It is all about a file with extension .php versus .html.
but I will recap again here:
I am very clear that Safari cannot run server side script locally. That is not the issue as that is a given.
"What I am expecting Safari to do" - and what all developers are expecting Safari to do when it encounters a local PHP file (a file with extension .php versus .html) is to render the HTML and display the page - not the source code. who wants to see the source code when trying to preview the layout and look and feel of a page.
again, in old 10.3 if you dropped a PHP file (file with .php extension) onto Safari, the file would display the HTML portion just fine and show the resulting webpage - and not process the PHP within the code naturally as it cannot being local and not off a server - but now in 10.4 if you drop a PHP file (file with .php extension) onto Safari it just shows you the source code. IF you chnage that exact files extension to .html it renders fine, chnage it back to .php and nothing but source code.
this is a know glitch and covered in the first linked thread in depth..... I am more looking at this point to see if anyone is aware of a fix yet??