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Hi, I am new to php and mysql. I have them installed on Win/XP and also on Linux.
I have been trying to get a simple example to run and am having problems getting it to display. I have run the phpadmin test and it works just fine, but when I try a simple script like ‘hello world’, I get the headings but the php script does not get read, that I can tell. One of the scripts I am using is

Hello World in PHP <?php echo "

Hello, World!

"; ?>

the Hello World! from php does not get display.

Any help is appreciated,

thanks
jlowry

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[QUOTE=jlowry]
Hi, I am new to php and mysql. I have them installed on Win/XP and also on Linux.
I have been trying to get a simple example to run and am having problems getting it to display. I have run the phpadmin test and it works just fine, but when I try a simple script like ‘hello world’, I get the headings but the php script does not get read, that I can tell. One of the scripts I am using is

Hello World in PHP <?php echo "

Hello, World!

"; ?>

the Hello World! from php does not get display.

Any help is appreciated,

thanks
jlowry
[/QUOTE]

I tried your code on my account on the Linux server and it worked ok. By chance are you not using a .php extension on the file?

I used the .php extension and it worked, when I changed the extension to .html, it did not work.

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Either that, or PHP is not enabled for that website from the control panel. Make sure you use the ‘apply changes’ link if you enable it.

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Thanks, for the info…

I figured out what the problem was. My web browser was not setup to use php as an application. Changed the configuration file and all is well.

thanks

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Sorry…

[QUOTE=jlowry]
My web browser was not setup to use php as an application. Changed the configuration file and all is well.

thanks
[/QUOTE]

How did you know, and how you changed the configuration (I use Win2000 and seems that I have trouble like yours)
Sorry… I guess it’s a silly question
thank you

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  1. Installed php4 into directory…mine is C:\php4

  2. Run the Pear installation script

    • move php.ini-recommended to C:\windows\php.ini

  3. Installed Apache 2.x using the defaults

  4. Modified httpd.conf with the following lines in there respective places:

    • DirectoryIndex index.html index.php index.html index.php.var
    • ScriptAlias /php4/ “C:/php4/”
    • AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .phtml .html
      AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .php
    • Action application/x-httpd-php /php4/php.exe
    • LoadModule php4_module C:\php4\php\php4apache2.dll

:slight_smile: hope this helps.