It seems that the popular IDE's assume that you are running against a localhost webserver or they run in their own webserver. If you want to edit and run files via FTP client, then you are restricted to keeping a real browser window open. There are all sorts of differences between what the internal webserver considers an error and what the real webserver does e.g. in windows there is no such thing as DOCUMENT_ROOT in the $_SERVER vars... How do experienced coders deal with this? DO you just ignore the run feature in the IDEs? or just use notepad anyway? thanks Alan -- PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php