Horribly confused

[Lucy]

So, I don't understand PHP, but I wanted to make a contact form for my website and apparantly you need PHP to create one which will send email from the web page itself, as opposed to opening an email client to send it. Thought that might be off-putting to some people.

 

I tried two different tutorials and it literally did nothing, and have suddenly realised that I might need a server of some sort. Is this the case? My website isn't online, you see, it's just all documents on my computer.

[dsonesuk]

Yes you need a web server that supports PHP

for example WAMP for Windows O/S or MAMP for Mac O/S

WAMP = Windows, Apache (web server), MYSQL, PHP.

MAMP = Macintosh, " , " , " .