Editing PHP???????

[whats going on]

I have installed a Viper guestbook to my website

http://whatsgoingon.me.uk/guest_book/

I would like to change the appearance of the page to match the rest of the website - if I try to open the index.php page in dreamweaver I see nothing that resembles what I see if I right click in the guest book webpage and select view source........

Do I need to learn php :-\ or am I missing something easy here

Many thanks

Andy

[speed]

When you open a .php file in say Dreamweaver you are seeing the code that runs to generate the HTML output which you see when you do view source from the browser.

As PHP runs server side the browser only ever sees the final HTML output and not the PHP code.

Depending on how the application is built you might find that it uses templates allowing you to simply edit those, or it could have snippets of HTML scattered far and wide through the PHP code.

The chances are you will have to learn some PHP.

[mushroom]

There is a lot to learn before you can edit php.

But I see your page uses CCS, unless it to is generated by php, you may be able to edit it to suit your needs with out learning php.

[jdiben]

Go to the admin section of viper guestbook. towards the bottom of the page there is a button to edit the style.inc(not sure of the name) file. click the button and you can edit the style of the guestbook.

[whats going on]

Thanks Guys,
Speed: that makes sense to me, if I found these templates are they likely to be in html or php? I will have a look to see if anything resembles html.
Mushroom: I tried to find the relevant CSS but it doesn't seem to be there!
Jdiben: That sounded the easiest option by far,, until I opened it and got information overload!! I was hoping to put a frame border like on the rest of the site and follow suit with the colour,,, colour would be easy but as for the frame border Hmmmmmm!

Well you have all given me something to work on,, will try and educate myself with it,,, meanwhile any other idea would be appreciated.

Andy

[speed]

if I found these templates are they likely to be in html or php?

Depends on the application, but you're probably looking for a hybrid of PHP & HTML, which seems to be the way lots of scripts go.