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[Sean A.]

So i am creating an application in flash that downloads the weather as an XML file from googles weather service. Because google doesn't have a crossdomain file I need to use a proxy to bypass the security. I'm not familiar with PHP but I looked it up and got many different results but when I try to test it locally I get a null response. I'm not sure if this is because I am testing it locally and not on a website or there is a problem with the script I am using. Here are the two methods I've tried and they both give me blank results but no error. So the question is if there is a way to test the proxy locally without uploading everything to the site (because I dont have direct access).

Code:

<?php
$url = $_GET['targetURL'];
readfile($url);
?>

Code:

<?php
$url = $_GET['targetURL'];
header('Content-Type: text/xml');
readfile($url);
?>

[agersant]

Is PHP running on your machine ? If not, you might want to take a look at WAMP. You cannot just write a php script and open it in your browser.

[xerus]

Is PHP running on your machine ? If not, you might want to take a look at WAMP. You cannot just write a php script and open it in your browser.

Whoa this WAMP stuff looks awesome.  I've been using xampp for my local web server stuff.  I wonder how this compares! 

[Sean A.]

Well I am using a mac for development but will there be any other issues testing this thing locally?

Edit: So I found out that OSX has some built in stuff for web development, you just have to enable php so I'm working on that now

Edit: Just figured it out and the proxy worked, thanks for the help 

[Richard Kain]

Yeah, having a development web environment to work off of is a real blessing. At my place I've rigged up a Ubuntu box as my local webserver, and all the other machines in the house feed into it for DNS. Not only can I test server-side scripts on it, but I can define my own domain names. They only apply locally, but it is fantastic for testing on different machines.

[Sean A.]

That's awesome! Having it built right into the os is the best. It was pretty finicky trying to enable it but once I did it has been great.

[st33d]

Second WAMP for XP, I'm currently using it to test the Facebook API (which crashes if you try to run it locally).

[Sean A.]

I've been having some weird problems trying to create HTML files. I copied some sample HTML code and pasted it in a text editor and saved as .html file but it wouldn't render the file correctly in browser, it just displayed the code. Then I pasted it in dreamweaver and saved it and that rendered it properly. I found it a little odd.

[JMickle]

you have to make sure its not saving as text