Quote Originally Posted by ewraysure View Post
@Acorn
Thanks for the explanation.
What is frustrating is that I knew zilch about PHP.
Yesterday, I watched some YouTube tutorials (not the 6 hour one!) to get to grips with it and printed out and read some essays from the Internet.
I've checked my Xara 300+ page manual and entered PHP into 'Help'. There doesn't seem to be ANY information about it. And little on this forum - I searched 'PHP', but suspect that wasn't long enough for any results, and found only a couple of queries.
It's only been the help of you guys that has explained what I should do - and for that I'm more than grateful.
But whoever it is who provide my Xara program are providing poor back-up in my book. It seems as though you have had to delve deeply into the program to see what it's capable of - and are then prepared to give of your time and expertise for novices like meself.
Kudos!
You are welcome. Xara doesn't mention it as it doesn't use it. The follow-on implementations has arisen through TG discussions over the years and Xara cobbling in a Placeholder Name of <html>; this was probably always around but only for developers. The logic is clear; the programs are supposed to be for designers and not programmers so no sniff of coding is allowed. Placeholders has been the dark horse since ever and slowly have refined into what we have at the moment, which is still pitiful.
The Xara On-line service (run by Magix) does not run PHP at all.

Those who want on-line forms usually needs PHP if they are hosting in their domain.

If you are replacing your legacy site with Xara, you do not need to worry about PHP.
You still need to tell your emptied environment you want the PHP engine to be 7.4.

Acorn