The PHP engine lets you create dynamic Web pages. PHP also reads HTML, so you can save an HTML file with a PHP extension and upload the new file to your server. After you upload the file to your ...

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However, you may prefer to run an HTML file in a specific browser -- for example, Firefox may contain debugging or design tools that you use during development.