A question about PHP

I decided I'd try to learn it. A tutorial said to put in some code that is supplied, and save it in .php. When I saved it, it turned into one of those Dream Weaver documents. When I opened it, thinking that might be the symble for PHP, it siad my trial has ended (I had a DW trial ). Anyway, I just want to know if I need Dream Weaver to do PHP, or can I use Notepad?

You can use any text editor to make php files, just save it with a .php extension. However to get this to work in notepad you'll have to type in "test.php" in the filename box otherwise it'll save it as test.php.txt

Also you require a web server to work with PHP. The most common one is apache (what rsbandb uses). PHP is server side so you can't open it in your browser and have the code work.

You can get a package with Apache, MySQL, and PHP at: http://www.wampserver.com/en/ WAMP stands for Windows Apache MySql, Php.

Shane