Thanks for the reply.

There is a .css folder and one file in there is called site.css (here's a sample of what it shows)

Body        { margin:0; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; overflow-x: hidden;
              background: url('../images/bkg.gif') repeat-y fixed center #D48E14; }
div.container { overflow: hidden; }
a:link,
a:visited,
a:active    { color: #CC0000; }
a:hover        { color: #000000; }
p            { clear: both; }
div#footer     { clear:both; border-top: 1px solid #333; width: 920px; margin: 10px auto 0 auto; text-align: center; padding: 5px 0 0 0; }

div#map { margin-bottom: 20px; }

img.borderme { border: 2px solid #D48E14; }

div.container { background: url('../images/indexbkg2.jpg') no-repeat bottom left; }
body#index div.container,
body.hpbkg div.container { background: url('../images/indexbkg.jpg') no-repeat bottom left; }
body#index h2#subtitle { width: 500px; }
body#index p.content { width: 300px; margin: 10px auto 15px auto; }

So I guess I have downloaded everything?

I have to say, the file structure/content is so different to my 'old site' (html), I'm struggling to make head or tail of it!

In regards to your post above, it just means that PHP is server-side code, which requires a web server to process. As Wickham said, you'll need something like WAMP to view the site on your local machine. Otherwise, you'll need to upload your changes to a temporary location, and view them there.

There is a .css folder and one file in there is called site.css

In which case create a folder on your computer called css in the folder where the php file is, or in the folder at the level above (are you sure the folder is .css with a . as this seems unlikely) and put site.css file inside. With any luck all the paths will still be correct for the link to work. Can you post a link to the php page that you are trying to convert to html?

As far as the conversion from PHP to html is concerned, I said previously that it depends what the PHP is doing. If it is just inserting code like headers, menu or footer from a separate "include" file, then when you download the page from the online version, view source and save it as a .html page, all the code you need is already there as it's been processed by the host's server.

However, you haven't said what the page php does, if it uses more complicated php coding to process to a database or perform other functions by communicating with a server from the actions of the viewer (say by entering information or clicking) then that won't work after converting to html.

Last edited by Wickham (2009-05-22 01:06:41)

Judging by the links on that page, you will need a very complex html-only site,  mod-rewrite to manage the urls, or you have a modular design that uses a single php index page to sort through the pages available.  The last two require a Server installed Locally.
The thing that suggests the above are the on-hover urls become SEO-friendly, with no file extensions.

I have downloaded and installed wampserver 2.0, can you kindly advise me where I can find out how to 'drive it' please?

I have tried to follow your guidance (for which, thanks) but I'm struggling. At the top of Server Configuration, it says "Intranet settings are now turned off by default. Intranet settings are less secure than Internet settings. Click here for options" - what should I do here please?

If I left click on the www.directory it opens a folder called www which has index.php in it. If I double click that, it opens Dreamweaver and the text is weird and means nothing at all to me.

When I try to open anything in 'localhost', I get:

Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator, admin@localhost and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

meant to add that the second line at the top of the page in localhost says:

Warning: include() [function.include]: Failed opening 'system/system.php' for inclusion (include_path='.;C:\php5\pear') in C:\wamp\www\index1.php on line 3

I would really appreciate some more guidance please.

All that error message is saying that it can't find the file you are trying to include.

.. Check your paths.

Hope that helps,

Stefan

You shouldn't need to take the files out of the folders -- that could be what is causing the errors in the first place. As Stefan said, the error is telling you that the PHP processor can't find a file it is looking for.

Where are all the files stored at the moment? No matter what the folder structure is, all of the files need to be stored in the "www" folder where the server can access them. If any files are stored outside the "www" folder, the server won't be able to access them, and you may run into errors.

thanks for the latest replies (and encouragement)

All the download of the site are in a folder on the desktop. I have just highlighted/copied all the folders. Then I went into C:\wamp\www (in explorer) and pasted the lot in there.

6 Folders now show in 'Your Projects' in localhost. I am totally unsure how I now open any file to see the design/code to be able to make changes?