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<font face="sans-serif">Good morning all,<br>
As a part of my plan to limit the atrophying of my ageing brain I
am working through 'PHP & MySQL for Dummies'. I think I have
got apache installed OK because when I point firefox at localhost
I get the 'It's working' response. So I then composed the
following script, called it test.php and stored it in /var/www:<br>
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<html><br>
<head><br>
<title>PHP Test</title><br>
</head><br>
<body><br>
<p>This is an HTML line<br>
<p><br>
<?php<br>
echo "This is a PHP line";<br>
phpinfo();<br>
?><br>
</body></html><br>
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When I point firefox at it I get a huge table of dozens of
properties which baffle me. But it seems to indicate that php is
also working.<br>
<br>
The next step in the book is to generate a mysql db so from the
CLI I went through generating mydb, user mick and a simple
password. However, there is no data in this DB.<br>
<br>
Then to test that I composed the following script, called it
test2.php and added it to /var/www:<br>
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<?php<br>
<br>
$host = "localhost"; <br>
$user = "mick"; <br>
$pass = "simplepassword"; <br>
<br>
$r = mysql_connect($host, $user, $pass);<br>
<br>
if (!$r) {<br>
echo "Could not connect to server\n";<br>
trigger_error(mysql_error(), E_USER_ERROR);<br>
} else {<br>
echo "Connection established\n"; <br>
}<br>
<br>
echo mysql_get_server_info() . "\n"; <br>
<br>
mysql_close();<br>
<br>
?><br>
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When I point firefox at localhost/test2 I get a completely clear
screen. It neither seems to work or return the error. It is
supposed to return a different table of parameters etc.<br>
<br>
Am I doing something stupid here/ If anyone can help an aged
beginner I would be most grateful. I've been banging my head
against this for several days and the book isn't any help as it
expects the text to 'just work' and it don't.<br>
<br>
MikeR<br>
in Folkestone<br>
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