From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Operating system: RH Linux 7.0 / Apache / Netscape PHP version: 4.0.6 PHP Bug Type: Documentation problem Bug description: Unclear to PHP novice: minimum necessary config for "hello"
Situation: old, used programmer just learning Linux PHP by himself. Took several hours to figure out simplest possible example execution. Main confusion: what example file / content goes where, then how to access testfile, then defining and matching several Apache file extensions (PHP, PHP3, PHP4). Have two PHP books, your tutorial, your manual, and your examples. Never found explicit directions on where PHP content could appear (so at first associated "Hello World" attempts with browser side HTML.) (What I was trying was browser "open page" to access local PHP testfile.) Your tutorial does say "server web directory", but not clearly enough (to a PHP novice) that this is the only place (for "Hello World".) (with access through a browser URL reference) The last few hours were spent learning a little about Apache's AddType and LoadType, then getting testfile extensions to match Apache definitions (the <?php tags inside a file are apparently not enough to get Apache to trigger PHP.) -- Edit bug report at: http://bugs.php.net/?id=13794&edit=1 -- PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
