Thanks for the reply :P I found it actually. Now I have the apache and php running, and am able to run my aforementioned test script locally. I am still looking through the manual now for the syntaxes and such. I am also looking on the web for some simple prewritten scripts to run and then try to dissect and deconstruct.
With my little test "script" I've written, there are a few things I'd like to be able to try to do with it that I think would help my learning process go on more smoothly, but i cant seem to figure out, what functions to even begin to try to use. I'll give an example. This is the result of my little "test" script as printed into a txt file. |Serie C2 Round 2|09.09.02|20.45|Sangiovannese|Florentia Viola So if i fill out the form again, and resubmit, i might get something like this: |Serie C2 Round 2|09.09.02|20.45|Sangiovannese|Florentia Viola |Serie C2 Round 2|09.09.02|20.45|Gualdo|Florentia Viola So for example, lets say I wanted to make another html form that has a form field for List team by: and and select either "home" or "away" ... by selecting "home", the browser would print out the following: Sangiovannese Gualdo so now I need to figure out how to get PHP to do the following: #1 look at each line in the text file and treat it individually #2 select the data after the 4th | from each line #3 print it back to the browser It's simple things like this that will get me going. I know for guys like you, it would take about 3 minutes to type that up but to me its a little tough trying to figure out how and where to use what. This manual isnt the most well put together in my opinion, its tough to locate things. So if someone or something would say to me"well for that operation, you need to create function_whatever, then run a so_and_so then I could go to the manual, and then learn how to write it. So this is my problem right now, basically not knowing WHAT to learn first. Thoughts? Thanks again -Tree ----- Original Message ----- From: Jay Blanchard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: php.general To: 'Chad Winger' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, September 12, 2002 3:01 PM Subject: RE: [PHP] Re: Cry for help > [snip] > As far as Apache is concerned, I looked at the website, yet couldnt find the > exact server software, so if you could provide me with a direct link I'd > appreciate it. It would be to my benefit however, if I could not only serve > myself html pages as http:// but also as file:// as internet costs here are > ridiculously high (no unilimited $24.99 2/7 packages here yet) > [/snip] > > When you install apache locally (on your own system) you will be serving > pages as http:// locally. Should help you to cut down on those unreal > internet costs. > > What OS are you running now? Give us that and we can point you to a link. > > HTH! Peace ... > > Jay > > Jay Blanchard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message 001901c25a5c$797161c0$8102a8c0@000347D72515">news:001901c25a5c$797161c0$8102a8c0@000347D72515... > [snip] > As far as Apache is concerned, I looked at the website, yet couldnt find the > exact server software, so if you could provide me with a direct link I'd > appreciate it. It would be to my benefit however, if I could not only serve > myself html pages as http:// but also as file:// as internet costs here are > ridiculously high (no unilimited $24.99 2/7 packages here yet) > [/snip] > > When you install apache locally (on your own system) you will be serving > pages as http:// locally. Should help you to cut down on those unreal > internet costs. > > What OS are you running now? Give us that and we can point you to a link. > > HTH! Peace ... > > Jay > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
