[PHP] tutorial failure

2010-08-18 Thread e-letter
Readers, Copy below of message sent 15 August to php install digest list, but to date not including in mail archive? The tutorial example: html head titlephp test /title /head body ?php echo 'pHi, I am a PHP

Re: [PHP] tutorial failure

2010-08-18 Thread e-letter
I changed the code as follows: html head titlephp test /title /head body ?php phpinfo ? ?php echo pHi, I am a PHP script/p; ? p this is a

Re: [PHP] tutorial failure

2010-08-18 Thread e-letter
On 18/08/2010, chris h chris...@gmail.com wrote: php is not processing the file. There's a few reasons for this, but the first thing I would check is the permissions of the file. From the directory try $ ls -oa The file permission was confirmed as root, since it was copied (as root) from a

Re: [PHP] tutorial failure

2010-08-18 Thread e-letter
On 18/08/2010, Peter Lind peter.e.l...@gmail.com wrote: On 18 August 2010 12:47, e-letter inp...@gmail.com wrote: On 18/08/2010, chris h chris...@gmail.com wrote: php is not processing the file. There's a few reasons for this, but the first thing I would check is the permissions of the file

Re: [PHP] tutorial failure

2010-08-18 Thread e-letter
On 18/08/2010, chris h chris...@gmail.com wrote: What are the actual file permissions when you run ls -o? root Do you know if PHP is installed as an apache mod or cgi? Also you might check what user apache is running as. No. How to verify? possibly... $ vi /etc/apache2/envvars No apache2

Re: [PHP] tutorial failure

2010-08-18 Thread e-letter
On 18/08/2010, chris h chris...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 7:10 AM, e-letter inp...@gmail.com wrote: On 18/08/2010, chris h chris...@gmail.com wrote: What are the actual file permissions when you run ls -o? root What's the entire output of ls -o? [r...@localhost html]# ls

Re: [PHP] tutorial failure

2010-08-18 Thread e-letter
On 18/08/2010, Ashley Sheridan a...@ashleysheridan.co.uk wrote: On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 12:10 +0100, e-letter wrote: On 18/08/2010, chris h chris...@gmail.com wrote: What are the actual file permissions when you run ls -o? root Do you know if PHP is installed as an apache mod or cgi

Re: [PHP] tutorial failure

2010-08-18 Thread e-letter
On 18/08/2010, Bob McConnell r...@cbord.com wrote: From: e-letter On 18/08/2010, chris h chris...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 7:10 AM, e-letter inp...@gmail.com wrote: On 18/08/2010, chris h chris...@gmail.com wrote: What are the actual file permissions when you run ls -o

Re: [PHP] tutorial failure

2010-08-19 Thread e-letter
On 19/08/2010, David McGlone da...@dmcentral.net wrote: Yes it is. But your computer needs the correct software to view that php file in a web browser as if it was a web page. If you do not have this software installed, then the web browser will ask you if you want to download the file

Re: [PHP] tutorial failure

2010-08-19 Thread e-letter
On 19/08/2010, David McGlone da...@dmcentral.net wrote: On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 23:08 +0100, e-letter wrote: On 18/08/2010, David McGlone da...@dmcentral.net wrote: On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 21:54 +0100, e-letter wrote: On 18/08/2010, David McGlone da...@dmcentral.net wrote: Do you have php5

Re: [PHP] tutorial failure

2010-08-19 Thread e-letter
On 19/08/2010, Ashley Sheridan a...@ashleysheridan.co.uk wrote: I think it's fairly clear that for whatever reason, PHP isn't properly configured with Apache. You've mentioned you're using Mandriva, which, coincidentally, is what i've just recently installed on my home machine. It has a very

Re: [PHP] tutorial failure

2010-08-19 Thread e-letter
On 19/08/2010, Ashley Sheridan a...@ashleysheridan.co.uk wrote: As Colin suggested on another email, check to see if apache-mod_php was installed too. It seems likely that it wasn't for some reason. How to verify please? Also, the instruction to use task-lamp; it seems this is for mysql but the

Re: [PHP] tutorial failure

2010-08-19 Thread e-letter
On 19/08/2010, HallMarc Websites sa...@hallmarcwebsites.com wrote: I agree with the earlier take on this situation; you need to start at the beginning and learn the basics regarding the technologies BEFORE you try and manage them. You're trying to drive a car when you don't even know what or

Re: [PHP] tutorial failure

2010-08-20 Thread e-letter
On 19/08/2010, Ashley Sheridan a...@ashleysheridan.co.uk wrote: No, because Apache doesn't need to process HTML in the same way it needs to process PHP. The tag ?php in your code is being sent down to your browser as HTML (view the source on the page you're browsing to) and interpreted as a

Re: [PHP] tutorial failure

2010-08-26 Thread e-letter
On 20/08/2010, Ashley Sheridan a...@ashleysheridan.co.uk wrote: You don't have to reinstall the entire OS, that's a very Windows approach to the problem. I played around a bit last night with urpmi and you should be able to just list the packages you need with urpmq --fuzzy package_name, and

[PHP] postgresql database access failure

2011-04-30 Thread e-letter
Readers, A postgresql database (local disk installation) is successfully accessed as a normal user: psql -U username databasename However, creating a php file to access the database has not been successful. html body ?php $db = pg_connect('dbname=databasename

Re: [PHP] postgresql database access failure

2011-05-01 Thread e-letter
On 30/04/2011, Daniel Brown danbr...@php.net wrote: Readers? Sounds like you spend too much time writing newsletters (to the wrong address, since php-general-digest-h...@lists.php.net is a self-help command list for digest-form subscriptions). ;-P On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 04:41, e-letter

Re: [PHP] postgresql database access failure

2011-05-01 Thread e-letter
The file was changed: ... $value=pg_fetch_result($query,1,1); echo 'all files' . var_dump($value); ... The resultant web page produces: bool(false) all files The php file was changed again: ... $value=pg_fetch_result($query); echo 'all

Re: [PHP] postgresql database access failure

2011-05-02 Thread e-letter
The query was: $query = 'SELECT * FROM databasetablename'; So, database access seems to be the problem. Using the superuser account 'postgres', a user 'httpd' was created and all privileges were granted to the target database using the postgresql 'grant' command. However the user 'httpd' is not

[PHP] Re: postgresql database access failure

2011-05-02 Thread e-letter
Here's the URL of the relevant manual page: http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.pg-fetch-result.php The manual page did not explain the purpose of the text 'die', so was ignored (;)). Anyway, the php code was amended as follows: ?php $db =

[PHP] Re: php-general Digest 5 May 2011 21:55:09 -0000 Issue 7299

2011-05-06 Thread e-letter
Readers, Looking through the mail lists archives, only the following message seems to advise about the possibility to use gnuplot: http://marc.info/?l=php-generalm=96248542218029w=2 Is it possible to start gnuplot using php, to plot a graph from postgresql data. For example, a table is created