Re: [PHP-INSTALL] Problem with AddModule line?

[Brad Kowalczyk]

Deadly Earnest wrote:
Sorry about this I'm doing something stupid, I'm sure, but I'm afraid I 
can't see what. I've searched in the mailing list for similar problems 
and there were a few but none provided me with an answer.

I installed PHP 5 as Per the instructions in install.unix.php on the PHP 
site.
I've installed Apache/2.0.53 previously on Linux Kernel 2.4.21

There's a few lines to add to the httpd.conf file the first of which 
'LoadModule' goes fine:
LoadModule php5_module        modules/libphp5.so
This is all you need to load the dso php module (libphp5.so)
After that the instructions say to add an 'AddModule' command the 
instructions being:-

And in the AddModule section of httpd.conf, somewhere under the 
ClearModuleList, add this:

There are no AddModule commands in my file! And there's no
sign of ClearModuleList I've searched the file and to no avail.
When I do add the AddModule line:
AddModule mod_php_5.c
I get an error when I start the Apache server:
Syntax error on line 236 of /usr/local/apache2/conf/httpd.conf:
Invalid command 'AddModule', perhaps mis-spelled or defined by a module 
not included in the server configuration
you dont need the AddModule line for the dso version (mod_php_5.c 
doesn't exist)


Can anybody help? When I remove the line the Server starts fine and PHP 
seems to be working
fine. The only problem that I'm having is that I've copied an example 
out of a book which
passes variables from a html page to a php script and it fails.

The html page has a form:
<form METHOD="post" ACTION="Calculate.php">
<p>Value 1: <input TYPE="text" NAME="val1" SIZE=10></p>
<p><input TYPE="submit" NAME="submit" VALUE="Calculate"></p>
</form>
In the PHP Script I simply try to print the value:
<?PHP echo "Value 1 is $val1";?>
Is this error in transfering the variables from the HTML Page to
the PHP Script because of my failed AddModule line?
No, it is because form variables are no longer automatically available 
to scripts (register_globals is now off by default, has been for a 
while) you will need to use $_POST['variable_name'] to access the 
variables. If the form method is GET you use $_GET['variable_name'].

You can also use $_REQUEST['variable_name'] to access variables in 
either $_GET, $_POST or $_COOKIE arrays.

(of course you replace 'variable_name' with the name of the variable you 
want to use)

Cheers,
Brad
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Brad Kowalczyk
Web Developer
www.ibiscode.com