PHP Installation

[Zaire]

Well..

If you on windows, you need to lick shift + rightclick on a .php file, and click Open With, select Internet Explorer and check the box that say all the time

[QuietDean]

To setup .php -

Start Button -> Settings -> Folder Options

Then choose File Types

That brings up all your extensions.

Choose Create New Type, asks for extension and name.Give it a name etc

There is a box called Actions. Below that, choose New.

Call the new action Open. Then it asks for a program to perform the Action. Browse to

C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe

Done. Now Create another New Action. Call it Edit (or whatever) and browse to C:\windows\notepad.exe or your favourite text editor.

Choose Apply and your done. Windows should even give it a nice IE icon, but if it doesnt, just choose one.

For looking at the files in PHP, then -

You should have, somewhere, a document root for your server software. This is where the page comes up when you type in localhost in the browser.

If you put a folder in there, call it practice, then put one of your php scripts in that folder, you can see it with

http://localhost/practice/yourpage.php

And thats how it works

[Zaire]

Originally posted by QuietDean
To setup .php -

Start Button -> Settings -> Folder Options

Then choose File Types

That brings up all your extensions.

Choose Create New Type, asks for extension and name.Give it a name etc

There is a box called Actions. Below that, choose New.

Call the new action Open. Then it asks for a program to perform the Action. Browse to

C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe

Done. Now Create another New Action. Call it Edit (or whatever) and browse to C:\windows\notepad.exe or your favourite text editor.

Choose Apply and your done. Windows should even give it a nice IE icon, but if it doesnt, just choose one.

For looking at the files in PHP, then -

You should have, somewhere, a document root for your server software. This is where the page comes up when you type in localhost in the browser.

If you put a folder in there, call it practice, then put one of your php scripts in that folder, you can see it with

http://localhost/practice/yourpage.php

And thats how it works

Dean.. this is just the long way to do wha i said :P

-Eric

[QuietDean]

It's always useful to know where to change these things if the need arises.

Plus, I have three options for every web extension I use,

Open IE
Open NN
Edit

Can't setup stuff like that without knowing where the filetypes are managed from.

[Zaire]

True......


(I don't care anywayz.. GO LINUX!)

[QuietDean]

I will!

[Derek]

I'm havin trouble understanding the part about making a folder in the localhost root directory?

You should have, somewhere, a document root for your server software. This is where the page comes up when you type in localhost in the browser.

Can u explain more in detail? Maybe Zaire can explain that part a little better only because he has fox serve. But Dean you probably know it too So I dunno.

[Zaire]

If you installed foxserv, i believe your root folder is c:\foxserv\www\

Thats where u put ur files, say c:\foxserv\www\test.php

would be localhost\test.php

If your using netscape, try localhost.localdomain\test.php

[Derek]

ok, I have more problems now.

I installed the php and everythin in program files and a folder called php, I don't know if that's a problem so that may have somethin to do with it. I went to the localhost,www, I have apache runnin and it says the php is runnin, and I have mysql runnin (with the green light of course), but when I click on any php document, a quick download thing comes up then disappears and that's all that happens. I dont' know what I did wrong. I even tried yoru way zaire of making the documents open through internet explorer. I'm really confused now.

[Derek]

I just made my own page called "hello.php" in the www folder, and it displayed! Problems over, right? No. Now I tried two simple scrips from the intro tutorial at php.net, but they wouldn't work! Any suggestions?

[Zaire]

what scripts would they be?1?1?1

[Derek]

<html><head><title>PHP Test</title></head>
<body>
<?php echo "Hello World<p>"; ?>
</body></html>

Nothin showed up, html will show up but not php.

<html><head><title>PHP Test</title></head>
<body>
<?php echo $HTTP_USER_AGENT; ?>
</body></html>

And this, both from the intro on the php.net page.

[QuietDean]

Are you looking at the page through localhost/www/yourpage.php or are you just viewing the page through your browser, C:\php\www\yourpage.php?

basically, whats it say in the address bar?

[QuietDean]

Sorry, Z. didn't see all your posts above explaining this already.

[Derek]

I put it where you said dean