title: Viewing PHP properly with my Localhost using XAMPP
body: <p>This is my first attempt at using a localhost while editing PHP website files (I'm a HTML girl, but have been asked to make some aesthetic changes to a PHP site).</p>
  
  <p>I've installed XAMPP on my Mac already and configured it (as far as I know). MySQL Database, ProFTPD, and Apache Web Server are running. I've succeeded at viewing a simple <code>index.php</code> file from the htdocs files using <code>localhost/index.php</code>. I've placed the entire website directory (named newsite) inside the htdocs folder. When I attempt to view the website in Firefox or Safari via <code>localhost/newsite/index.php</code> I get this message in the browser: </p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>Warning:
    include_once(/Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/htdocs/inc/simplepie.inc):
    failed to open stream: No such file or directory in
    /Applications/XAMPP/xamppfiles/htdocs/newsite/index.php on line 2</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>This is referring to a block of PHP at the beginning of the <code>index.php</code> document. I've checked, the <code>simplepie.inc</code> file is in file inc under file <code>newsite</code>. If I try go around it by commenting out that section of code and any related calls, the browser goes blank. Can anyone please tell me what else I need to do to just view these files via localhost?</p>