Newbie Setup Trouble

Hi Mike I am using the same book and am very much a newbie also, I had loads of problems just like your having. The best way I think just to set it up and run programs is to use Easyphp. You can get it at www.easyphp.org. It will install everything for you (php, mysql + apache) in one package. Hope this helps Vikas php-db-digest-help@lists.php.net wrote: php-db Digest 7 Feb 2005 14:55:25 -0000 Issue 2811 Topics (messages 38485 through 38486): Newbie Setup Trouble 38485 by: Mike Rondeau mysqli connection problem 38486 by: Denis Gerasimov Administrivia: To subscribe to the digest, e-mail: php-db-digest-subscribe@lists.php.net To unsubscribe from the digest, e-mail: php-db-digest-unsubscribe@lists.php.net To post to the list, e-mail: php-db@lists.php.net ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > ATTACHMENT part 2 message/rfc822 To: php-db@lists.php.net From: "Mike Rondeau" Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2005 17:57:17 -0800 Subject: Newbie Setup Trouble Hello, I have just begun study of using PHP, MySQL and Apache server. Right now I'm following a book, "PHP and MySQL For Dummies" and am having trouble already. I must be a REAL dummy! I have installed all 3 programs but something is not right somewhere. Being so new to this I am having a real time trying to figure out which program is messed up. Certain things work, but others don't. For instance, my book told me how to make a phpinfo.php page, which works fine. But it also tells me to create some other pages to test if PHP and MySQL are working or not. I followed the scripts provided exactly but keep getting syntax errors, even though the script is just what the authors wrote. For instance, it said to make a page and call it mysql_up.php. Here's the script for it: $host="localhost"; $user="blablablabla"; $password="blablabla"; mysql_connect($host,$user,$password); $sql="show status"; $result = mysql_query($sql); if ($result == 0) { echo "Error " . mysql_errno() . ": " . mysql_error() . ""; } else { ?> Variable_nameValue for ($i = 0; $i < mysql_num_rows($result); $i++) { echo ""; $row_array = mysql_fetch_row($result); for ($j = 0; $j < mysql_num_fields($result); $j++) { echo "" . $row_array[$j] . ""; } echo ""; } ?> But when I open it in my browser I get this error: Fatal error: Call to undefined function mysql_connect() in C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache2\htdocs\mysql_up.php on line 10 Could anyone of you smart people point me in the right direction? I'd be pulling my hair out if I had any left :) I can't make any progress with this study until I know my 3 programs are talking to eachother properly, but my book gives no info on this error. Thanks a millionfold for any advice, and I appologise for the length of this post. Sincerely, Mike Rondeau > ATTACHMENT part 3 message/rfc822 From: "Denis Gerasimov" To: , "MySQL General List" , "PHP General List" Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2005 17:52:50 +0300 Subject: mysqli connection problem Hello, This question was asked many times, but I can't find a good answer. I am getting this error message while trying to connect to MySQL server (PHP + PEAR::DB_DataObject): "Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '' (111)" (notice '' - is that right?) Does anyone have any ideas about how to get rid of this error? Configuration: * RedHat Enterprise Linux AS3 * Apache 2.0.46 * PHP 5.0.2 * MySQL 4.1.9, mysqli ext. Thanks! --------------------------------- ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun!