Phpinfo() not working..for new guy

[Hyte News]

I attempted to start learning PHP two days ago and can't get past the
test.php example. Something is not configured right in php and I hoped
someone could help.

This is what I have.
Windows ME with PWS 4
PHP4
and MySQL which I haven't gotten far enough to test yet.

The simple example to test if PHP is working is <? phpinfo() ?> Saved as
test.php it should return a configuration table in my browser, (MSIE6) but
doesn't.

What I see is, a DOS window opens and tons of code flies by, then the window
closes. The Browser home page does not even change.

I had to manually go into the Registry to set PHP as the associated app to
handle .php because our printing software registered .php already. I tried a
google search of this news group and couldn't narrow it enough to find
anything helpful.

Any Ideas?

Rand

[Matt Mitchell]

Hyte News wrote:

> What I see is, a DOS window opens and tons of code flies by, then the
> window closes. The Browser home page does not even change.
>
> I had to manually go into the Registry to set PHP as the associated app to
> handle .php because our printing software registered .php already. I tried
> a google search of this news group and couldn't narrow it enough to find
> anything helpful.
>

Windows thinks that you want the .php file to open using the php app, rather
than displaying it in the browser...maybe...

Are you sure you're accessing the file as http://somehost/test.php, rather than
c:\webroot\test.php (or similar)?

[Hyte News]

Your emphasis on accessing the file from http://host/test.php made me think
that I should move the script into the webroot, which I did and then enabled
permissions on webroot. It now works.

I thought enabling executing rights on webroot is a security problem.
Shouldn't I be able to access all scripts from c:\inetpub\scripts\*

Thank You for your help, can people really learn this in just a week, like
another recent post said?

Any other suggestions for learning resources? I just bought PHP and MySQL
web development by SAMS and I will be working section by section through the
PHP documentation now that you helped me verify that it is working.

Rand

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[Mark Tomlinson]

dont know about a week but you're not the only one!!!
I have started with the SAMS and its limited (especially seeing as I'm not a
programmer) but theres plenty of resource on these newsgroups...good luck!

Mark

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