Form response

Hi, RedHat 7.2 RPM with PostgreSQL 7.1.x and PHP 4.0.6 Page 111 of "PHP and PostgreSQL", this form displays in Mozilla. The submit button is expected to run a script called reaction.php but it opens the script and displays the code. The response is the same with or without variable input. I changed the script file to executable: no effect. I can run 'reaction.php' from the shell and it works. What is the problem here? --------------------------------- form ----------------------------------------------------------------- <html> <body>

    A Simple Form
    <br><br>
    <form action="reaction.php" method="post">
         <input type="text" name="field_1" size="10"><br><br>
         <input type="submit" name="submitbutton">
    </form>

</body> </html> ------------- Reaction.php ------------------------------------------------------------------action.php <?php

    if     ($field_1)
    {
           echo "field_1: $field_1";
    }
    else
    {
           echo "nothing has been passed to this script";
    }

?> ---------------------- run as stand alone php file ----------------------------------------------------------------- bash-2.05$ php < reaction.php X-Powered-By: PHP/4.0.6 Content-type: text/html nothing has been passed to this script ---------------------------------------------------------------- In: /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf

    AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
        (appears as above plus an entry for each of php2,3,&4)
    LoadModule php4_module        modules/libphp4.so
    LoadModule php_module         modules/mod_php.so

These were all uncommented in the RPM installation of RedHat 7.2. Somehow PHP is partially working... Any suggestions? I can create forms in php and tables in PostgreSQL but according to phpinfo(), php is not configured for PostfreSQL. If I survive this problem, that one is on the horizon. Does anyone have a generic list of things to do after an RPM installation of RedHat Linux 7.2 in order to use PHP with PostgreSQL? Thanks, Warren _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com