read php-file with the browser from local host

[Pavlin24]

Hallo,

Can anybody help for this question.

I have changed my computer. And now my browser (google chrome) can not read php-files from my computer.

I have installed PHP from XAMPP.

What may be the reason for this?

[Ingolme]

You have to use the localhost domain to run PHP. Opening the PHP file directly will not work.

[Pavlin24]

Excuse me, but how I must use the localhost.

On the old PC I did not do anything special. It worked directly.

[Ingolme]

If you have XAMPP installed, when you turn it on, the files that are inside the htdocs directory of your XAMPP installation will be accessible through the localhost domain in the browser, like this: http://localhost/file.php

It might be that you had a Chrome extension that creates a local server like this one: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/web-server-for-chrome/ofhbbkphhbklhfoeikjpcbhemlocgigb?hl=en Just like XAMPP, the Chrome extension requires the files to be in a particular folder and accessed through a particular domain (127.0.0.1:8000)

[Pavlin24]

Yes. Thank you Ingolme. Now it works. But other problem. With encoding. I wrote text with cyrillic letters and it shows like this - ???????.

Pls see the attachment.

Doc1.docx

[Ingolme]

Your code editor should save the file with a UTF-8 encoding and your HTML page should specify that encoding using a <meta charset="UTF-8"> tag.

[Pavlin24]

Thank you vert much Ingolme!

It works now.

[Pavlin24]

Do you think it is possible newbie like me to find a job from distance as web designer?

[justsomeguy]

I guess it's possible if someone wants to hire you.