Create your file structure
Find some development space
You'll need access to some PHP enabled web space to work through this tutorial. If you have access to an OU development server then you'll be good to go. If not, you could download WAMP for Windows or MAMP for Mac or XAMPP for Linux, Mac or Windows. These packages install a complete web server on your local computer.
If you're going to be working locally then you'll also need to download the OU server side includes as detailed here.
Activity 1
Create a folder somewhere in the WWW root (sometimes known as htdocs or public_html) of your web server and give it the title "ouice-demo".
Using your notepad of choice, Dreamweaver or other software with a code-view, create a new file. Save it as index.php, preferable using the UTF-8 character encoding. Dreaweaver might have automatically added some intial code to the file. You wont be needing that so delete it so the file is completely empty.
Example
You should now have a folder in the web root / htdocs of your web server containing one blank file, index.php.