Can't get PHP script to run when launched from Aptana Studio

I've been using notepad++ for web development (currently html, css, and some php and mysql). I decided to dive into an IDE to see if I could cut down on development time and have more power than notepad++.

I grabbed Aptana yesterday and, after harassing it for a few hours, have finally gotten everything up and running. The only problem is that my web pages, which are .php's, do not execute any of their included p开发者_开发知识库hp code in the browser.

as an example:

<?php
echo "IT WORKS WOOO";
?>

ought to print IT WORKS WOOO smack in the middle of my blank test page, and yet it does not. I checked to see if I had somehow forgotten how to do an echo statement and ran it on my desktop, using notepad++, and it worked just fine.

I have the php plugin, have used the php perspective to write it and have launched it as a php web page, but nothing makes it execute the php within.

Any ideas?

-Sqm

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From the sounds of it your using plug-ins to parse php files, which Aptana doesn't. You will need to install a php stack to test your scripts properly.

Try Zend Server community edition, which a full lamp stack.