#13794 [NoF->Csd]: Unclear to PHP novice: minimum necessary config for "hello"

ID: 13794 Updated by: philip@php.net Reported By: daveaikm@ix.netcom.com -Status: No Feedback +Status: Closed Bug Type: Documentation problem Operating System: RH Linux 7.0 / Apache / Netscape PHP Version: 4.0.6 New Comment: I closed this awhile ago and included details on how to setup PHP locally. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-03-10 00:00:01] php-bugs@lists.php.net No feedback was provided for this bug for over a month, so it is being suspended automatically. If you are able to provide the information that was originally requested, please do so and change the status of the bug back to "Open". ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-02-07 05:31:36] goba@php.net IMHO, the submitter is talking about http://php.net/tut.php [which is IMHO soon to be integrated to the manual]. -- Goba ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2002-02-06 12:26:25] alindeman@php.net Which page is this? I'm looking for a URL here.... ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2001-10-23 01:30:26] daveaikm@ix.netcom.com Suggested change to introductory tutorial: Section is "Your first PHP-enabled page" Currently: Create a file named hello.php and in it ... Suggested update: Create a file named "hello.php" in your server web directory and in it ... ================================ Currently: This program is extremely simple ... Suggested update: add following sentence, preceding current. Use your browser to access the file with your web access URL, ending with the "/hello.php" file reference. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2001-10-23 01:05:50] daveaikm@ix.netcom.com Situation: old, used programmer just learning Linux PHP by himself. Took several hours to figure out simplest possible example execution. Main confusion: what example file / content goes where, then how to access testfile, then defining and matching several Apache file extensions (PHP, PHP3, PHP4). Have two PHP books, your tutorial, your manual, and your examples. Never found explicit directions on where PHP content could appear (so at first associated "Hello World" attempts with browser side HTML.) (What I was trying was browser "open page" to access local PHP testfile.) Your tutorial does say "server web directory", but not clearly enough (to a PHP novice) that this is the only place (for "Hello World".) (with access through a browser URL reference) The last few hours were spent learning a little about Apache's AddType and LoadType, then getting testfile extensions to match Apache definitions (the <?php tags inside a file are apparently not enough to get Apache to trigger PHP.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=13794&edit=1