how to open .php files for MODS

[Mentill Kase]

Quick question, I wanted to how to edit my .php files

example "function.php" in my "includes" directory?

whenever it's opened via internet ( I use IE7 ) ...nothing is physically editable only readable and I get certificate errors ( which I've managed to correct )

and whenever I "specifically" open my functions.php file it always shows the script for like half a second and then gets a 400 http error where --> "str_replace( " goes at the end of the web address.

Again, any help will be greatly appreciated.

 

[Daniel S]

This Belongs in the "Programming Help" Forum.

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[Smith6612]

If anything, download the file and use notepad/wordpad to open the file. That should work.

 

[Mentill Kase]

the .php file I'm having trouble opening is in my "phpBB3" directory, I can't "download" it :-/

 

[marshian]

Why not? Just click the download-button in your ftp program...
If it's in your directory (/home/users/yourname), you can download it, it's completely controllable by you. (Only you don't want to play with some files...)

Note:
Don't try to download a php file by trying to download it from the url, as you only get the result of the php file, and not the origional source.

 

[Mentill Kase]

Didn't know that ^^

How would I go about getting to that directory?

 

[marshian]

Well, as soon as you connect to your site over the ftp-protocol, you'll end up in /home/users/yourname/ this is where you find your public_html/ (or www/) directory too.

If you don't have an ftp program, I suggest downloading FileZilla here.

 

[Brandon]

Well, as soon as you connect to your site over the ftp-protocol, you'll end up in /home/users/yourname/ this is where you find your public_html/ (or www/) directory too.

If you don't have an ftp program, I suggest downloading FileZilla here.

It's /home/username/

When you go into FTP just double click 'public_html' to get your file listings.

 

[Mentill Kase]

ahh it's cool, I managed to open up php via notepad

Thanks for all your help, much appreciate all the information from everyone who intended to this issue