On Friday 11 May 2001 23:26, Richard Lynch wrote:
If you ignore it, you'll continue the problem: People attempt to install
PHP with PWS on Win95/98 and get frustrated, and have to dig all over
creation to find install instructions that should have been in the PHP
release.
What I'm
I think PWS on 95/98 looks in the registry...
Agreed - PWS on these platforms is fundamentally a cut down version of
IIS3.
I suspect it is possible to have this on NTWS as well, but PWS4 which
comes
with the NT option pack (same CD as IIS4) certainly looks in the
Metabase -
though I don't
then please merge the install.txt in there, as it's currently somewhat
incomplete
I will attempt to do that this afternoon.
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I don't think so, it looks ok.
But I must admit that I prefer plaintext readme's... But that's
just me.
At 13:40 10.5. 2001, Liz wrote the following:
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I noticed no comments at all about the HTML version of the readme I offered..
Does it suck that bad?
No - it doesn't suck at all!
It's just that James's suggestion that we update the installation chapter of
the manual and generate the installation noted from that is so eminently
sensible, that it would be foolish to do otherwise - which sadly means that
the efforts both
I don't think so, it looks ok.
But I must admit that I prefer plaintext readme's... But that's
just me.
Depends, for a unix system, I'd agree, I dont want a HTML one, but for
windows, its nice to have one you can easily skip to bits. So, in this case,
Id say it was worth it. As every windows
It's just that James's suggestion that we update the installation chapter of
the manual and generate the installation noted from that is so eminently
sensible, that it would be foolish to do otherwise - which sadly means that
the efforts both you and I did earlier will be consigned forever to
On the subject of updating the manual though..
the IMAP, POP and NNTP functions section.. it only contains imap functions. Im
sure this is confusing to people.
It's just that James's suggestion that we update the installation chapter of
the manual and generate the installation noted from that
Quoting Liz [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
the IMAP, POP and NNTP functions section.. it only contains imap functions.
Im sure this is confusing to people.
It's the names of the functions that are wrong, not the name of the section.
Read the documentation for imap_open() - it'll talk to pop3 and nntp
On Thu, May 10, 2001 at 04:22:35PM +0200, Hartmut Holzgraefe wrote:
Liz wrote:
or...
imap_*
pop3_*
nntp_*
just for good measure? as it certainly reads better to see
pop3_open(..)
polluting the function namespace by even more aliases? no way
Right, that would be
I'm in the middle of sorting out the windows installation instructions for
the manual and the readme file for the windows distribution. What I thought
would be a quick job, as usual, is much more complicated than I thought. The
readme.txt, install.txt and the manual all contradict each other, and
Anyway, I'm well on with the job, but I have an issue with the instructions
on installing PHP with PWS on NT Workstation. All the instructions
everywhere talk about editing the registry, but as far as I am aware, PWS on
NTWS is not in the least bit interested in the registry - it uses the IIS
To the best of my knowledge, it used to when it was based on IIS3 (and was
essentially the same thing currently shipped as PWS for 9x/ME) but the
current PWS for NTWS is essentially IIS4.
Could only be an improvement.
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There is a separate file called install.txt which covers installation on a
wider range of servers.
Ideally there would be one document - I was just soaking up a spare 10
minutes to improve things a bit!
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the readme shold be nuked as it's pretty out of date.
info's not covered by install.txt should be moved there, IMO.
One thing I noted when setting my windows stuff up was that there were various
details in different places, makes it a little more confusing. A simple HTML
file including with
At 18:58 09.05.2001 +0100, James Moore wrote:
Well keep the manual up to date and we can generate install.txt from this
very simply..
make
lynx -dump html/install.windows.html install.txt
in the manual dir. I think this is probably the best way to do it.
then please merge the install.txt in
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