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A PHP User - 06 Sep 2008
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A PHP User - 06 Sep 2008
I wanted to use PHP with a MySQL database and I was struggling to install them separately, when I discovered XAMPP from a link in the PHP site. It installed PHP, MySQL. An apache server and a few other useful bits in about 10 minutes. Then it provided a control box on my PC desktop which allowed me to start the webserver and database easily. Testing out the examples in this book were then so easy, just write a script, save to the XAMPP htdocs directory and then point your browser at 127.0.0.1/{filename}.
Canadian PHP User - 06 Sep 2008
I have no CLI directory under my PHP tree. I used EasyPHP for installation ... can I download and install the PHP CLI without ruining EasyPHP's configurations?
Canadian PHP User - 06 Sep 2008
I have no CLI directory under my PHP tree. I used EasyPHP for installation ... can I download and install the PHP CLI without ruining EasyPHP's configurations?
Canadian PHP User - 06 Sep 2008
I have no CLI directory under my PHP tree. I used EasyPHP for installation ... can I download and install the PHP CLI without ruining EasyPHP's configurations?
A PHP User - 06 Sep 2008
You REALLY do need to have a whole chapter devoted to installing the required software to use and view PHP. I have no idea what install, configure, etc. The book is useless otherwise. This should be the FIRST chapter in the book...without it, you can read all day and never see what you are doing. Inexcusable. Glad I tried the free version before buying a book.
A PHP User - 06 Sep 2008
If you're a true newbie, and are completely lost as to how to start installing what is required to actually write and view PHP in your web browser, I suggest the following website:
http://mpcon.org/apacheguide/apache.php
That is about as hold-your-hand as you can get in how to install apache. Once apache is installed, follow his guides on installing PHP and MYSQL as well, both of which are also geared towards the complete newbie.
I myself am basically new to PHP, and one thing I had to hunt forever to find was how to end a line and start a new line if you were not outputting something within double quotes. ie:
print "blahblah";
or
print $blah;
There are about a gazillion code examples for the first one:
print "blahblah<br />";
but strangely enough I've yet to actually find an official way to do it for the second one.
Currently I am doing:
print $blah;
echo '<br />';
but what I was wondering is if there is a simpler, shorter way of achieving the linebreak.
A PHP User - 06 Sep 2008
If you're a true newbie, and are completely lost as to how to start installing what is required to actually write and view PHP in your web browser, I suggest the following website:
http://mpcon.org/apacheguide/apache.php
That is about as hold-your-hand as you can get in how to install apache. Once apache is installed, follow his guides on installing PHP and MYSQL as well, both of which are also geared towards the complete newbie.
I myself am basically new to PHP, and one thing I had to hunt forever to find was how to end a line and start a new line if you were not outputting something within double quotes. ie:
print "blahblah";
or
print $blah;
There are about a gazillion code examples for the first one:
print "blahblah<br />";
but strangely enough I've yet to actually find an official way to do it for the second one.
Currently I am doing:
print $blah;
echo '<br />';
but what I was wondering is if there is a simpler, shorter way of achieving the linebreak.
A PHP User - 06 Sep 2008
You don't even mention anything about installing PHP. Somehow I'm reading info about PHP, then suddenly I'm supposed to have installed it already? What the hell? This is a terribly written "book."
A PHP User - 06 Sep 2008
Im lost...completely, i cant even find where you open the bloody php program itself, let alone what you do, this is startign to seem hopeless...
A mexican new PHP User - 06 Sep 2008
Hi. Finally before 3 sessions of being studying how to use the code mentioned in this page, I made it.
I used the installer EasyPHP, and it made a folder called www , in that folder I saved the archive with the code with the name info.php, then I inserted the next URL:
http://127.0.0.1/info.php
it works!!
But I think I spent much time understanding where do I had to save the file.
Re: A PHP Newbie - 06 Sep 2008
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QUOTE:
1. Am I supposed to create a text file with
<?php
phpinfo();
?>
in it? If so, what should I name it? Should the file extension be php, html, txt or nonexistent?
2. Is that a tab or spaces in front of phpinfo?
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1. 'Running a script' means, at least in this case, putting the code into a .php file and executing it in your browser - opening the page, basically. For this example no other code is needed at all. The file extension must be .php unless stated otherwise so your browser knows to parse the information as a .php script.
2. The gap in front is irrelevant, it is just used to space out code so it is easy to read.
A PHP User - 06 Sep 2008
In your examples where you use <BR />, this is incorrect syntax; <br /> is only supported in XHTML, and requires lowercase tag and attributes. Uppercase tags and attribs are only allowed in HTML, in which case the self closing element /> is not needed, or supported. For more information, check out www.w3c.org for the HTML and XHTML RFCs.
Another PHP Newbie - 06 Sep 2008
The text, heretofore easy to follow for this newbie of newbies, suddenly assumes I know too much. I would like to try the web browser option. Unanswered questions include:
1. Am I supposed to create a text file with
<?php
phpinfo();
?>
in it? If so, what should I name it? Should the file extension be php, html, txt or nonexistent?
2. Is that a tab or spaces in front of phpinfo?
A PHP User - 06 Sep 2008
I wanted to use PHP with a MySQL database and I was struggling to install them separately, when I discovered XAMPP from a link in the PHP site. It installed PHP, MySQL. An apache server and a few other useful bits in about 10 minutes. Then it provided a control box on my PC desktop which allowed me to start the webserver and database easily. Testing out the examples in this book were then so easy, just write a script, save to the XAMPP htdocs directory and then point your browser at 127.0.0.1/{filename}.
A PHP User - 06 Sep 2008
There is no CLI directory in my PHP directory. You need to list off step by step how to install such a difficult process. This is madness.
A PHP Newbie - 06 Sep 2008
Yeah, how in the world do you install most of the stuff you're talking about? Stupid open source crap! Why can't they make installers for everything?
mosweuk@bbl.bw - 06 Sep 2008
I am not sure of the installation you are using, check paragraph 5, in php 5.0.3 (manual install) the CLI SAPI executale is in the install diriectory under windows i.e. c:\php\php.exe
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