Problems with PHP and htaccess

[BauerUK]

I'm having some trouble with my shared hosting, .htaccess and PHP.

Whenever I create a htaccess handler rule for a specific directory, all that happens is when I attempt to run my PHP scripts they are shown as a standard download, and I can save the script locally.

This is an example of what I'm attempting:

AddType application/x-httpd-php .png .php

This is so I can create dynamic PNG images in PHP and use them in my site. I'm not sure what's going wrong here, any help would be appreciated.

[eUK-Nick]

If you come over live chat right now, our support team technicians will fix this straight away.

[jc8654]

It will probably be due to something about rights and restrictions on PHP. Support seem to be great at solving these!