php_newbie

strycnine · 11-14-2007, 08:52 AM

Hi, I found a tutorial to learn php...all it's good.
I make the example from tutorial
with extension *.php
<html>
<body>

<?php
echo "Hello World";
?>

</body>
</html>

In my tutorial doesn't say how to run it.
I tried file://file.php in browser
but shows me:
echo "Hello World";
?>

What do I have to do??
thanks

veerain · 11-14-2007, 10:11 AM

load it to a php enabled server and then go that hyperlink

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crabboy · 11-14-2007, 09:47 PM

contusion, you've been asked in previous posts to stop posting the same link in your messages. Please put links like this in your signature.

german · 11-14-2007, 11:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by strycnine

Hi, I found a tutorial to learn php...all it's good.
I make the example from tutorial
with extension *.php
<html>
<body>

<?php
echo "Hello World";
?>

</body>
</html>

In my tutorial doesn't say how to run it.
I tried file://file.php in browser
but shows me:
echo "Hello World";
?>

What do I have to do??
thanks

If you want to get started quickly without learning how to set up a production web server such as apache or a production SQL server such as mysql, look at XAMPP. It gives you everything you need in one bundle to start writing PHP and perl applications.

HTH

strycnine · 11-16-2007, 12:56 PM

Contusion how do I load my *.php into a php enabled server??
I started the /etc/rc.httpd thing
thx

Nylex · 11-16-2007, 01:34 PM

Do you have PHP installed? Put the file in the directory where pages are served from for your the server (you'll probably want to check the httpd.conf file for this, it'll be something like /var/www though but I can't be certain).

edgarmolina · 11-16-2007, 06:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nylex

Do you have PHP installed? Put the file in the directory where pages are served from for your the server (you'll probably want to check the httpd.conf file for this, it'll be something like /var/www though but I can't be certain).

put the file in your apache pages directory like /var/www or c:\Program Files\Apache\www and open in your web browser something like this, http://localhost/name.php, where name is the name of your file, and to know if apache (httpd) is running simply open http://localhost/, and finally, never use file:// to open a php script, that opens the php as a text file and dont execute it.

strycnine · 11-17-2007, 06:57 AM

Hi again, I put my file 1.php in /var/www and tried http://localhost/1.php
and it said Not Found;(and the apache server in started)
And I have php installed.
if I type only http://localhost/
it says: It works!!
thx

god93 · 11-17-2007, 01:15 PM

U need to host it somewere... just make an accound on a free host and host on there... so you can see if you code works its what i did when i started to learn php. or install apache, install php and fire up you own server

brazilnut · 11-17-2007, 02:06 PM

In your 'httpd.conf' file, make sure you have a line something like this:

Code:

AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .phtml .html

so that it knows to interpret files with those extension with the parser. Also make sure the file has the appropriate permissions, -rw-rw-r-- will prolly do...

strycnine · 11-19-2007, 01:46 PM

Hi it's me again...
I put 1.php in /var/www, I add "AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .phtml .html .htm" to httpd.conf and I started apache(apachectl -k start) and when I type http://localhost
it give me to download a thing 'which is a: application/x-httpd-php from http://localhost'
I hope you have time and pacience with me.
thx

Nylex · 11-19-2007, 02:04 PM

You may need to add a LoadModule directive to your httpd.conf file as well, though I'm not sure.