download php file

**edge91** · 01-19-2009, 04:52 PM

hello. I am new to php and I was wondering if I can download a .php file when the file is 777 and in the same folder there is a index.html file.

thnx ahead

**Saidul** · 01-19-2009, 04:58 PM

so what do you mean ?

**edge91** · 01-19-2009, 04:59 PM

I mean that I tried to download that .php file directly from the browser but it didnt work. I got an error 500.

**jason_alan** · 01-19-2009, 05:29 PM

Why would you want to download a php file?

**edge91** · 01-19-2009, 05:36 PM

because that is my homework. I go to high school in Serbia and my teacher gave me homework and that is my homework.

**jason_alan** · 01-19-2009, 05:42 PM

Do you know what php is? Php is parsed by the server to produce html. You can't download a php file. You could copy the code into a text file if you wanted to see the actual php code in your browser, but I'm not sure exactly what you're trying to do here.

**edge91** · 01-19-2009, 05:44 PM

so there is no way that I can download the .php file from the server?

**wesayitnet** · 01-19-2009, 05:52 PM

you could use a ftp connection to the server and download the php file.
off course, if you have access to the server :P
try filezilla

**anderswc** · 01-20-2009, 07:06 AM

If you are trying to allow other people to download the file you can put it in a zip archive, but if you're trying to get to someone else's code, good luck! That's what makes PHP (or any other server side language) more secure than, say, JavaScript.