Re: Re: Continuance of the struggle (trying to understand)

Morning all, Apologies for the delay, I've just become a Dad for the first time so a little distracted! If I explain exactly what I am trying to do then it may become clear as to where I'm going wrong. Needless to say, new baby so want to show him off (Callum, 7lb4oz) so decided to buy a webname and pay for hosting, however money is a bit tight, so being adventurous (or stupid, not sure which yet) I set up apache on my laptop and started writing a website in Serif's WebPlus10. However I wanted to have an upload area on the site for friends and family to send their pictures of Callum (and the family and anything else they wanted) so there was a central "store". However I tried to find some html to handle the upload of these files but wasn't able to work it out, google and various other bitsx of research on the net showed that I probably needed to run a script to do this and PHP seemed the simplest, so I downloaded PHP 5.3.3 and installed it. This is where it started getting tricky as I was using the PHP for dummies book from 2006. I typed that piece of code in (direct from the book) but added it as an html attachment into my site I was building. Uploaded the site to my localhost and had a look. I only got the HTML line from the script. This is where I started contacting you bunch of fine programmers! I have now learned that if I save the script as a .php file and navigate direct to it on localhost it works fine, but I think what I am trying to do is get it to work in an existing webpage so that I can then get my upload working. Any help you can offer from explanantions to whole bits of code will be greatly received! Many thanks! "Steve Staples" <sstaples@mnsi.net> wrote in message news:1286281586.4703.63.camel@webdev01...

Col: If i am reading this correctly, then i think you're looking at this all wrong. If you're working within some kind of page, stored outside of the http://localhost served by apache, like say the .php file is on the desktop... then yeah, you're not going to get the PHP information displayed. (tech people bare with me here...) PHP pages, are "compiled" when called... so you need apache to call php and translate the PHP code so that if there is any output, it will display that output. If you're trying to show a .php file from teh desktop, then apache isn't handeling this request, and therefor has no idea that there is php code that has to be compiled, and therefore it will just ignore it. I am sure that I am goign to get flamed for that, but i think that it kinda simplifies what apache does for php. NOW... you can run a php file from the command line, but you're not going to get the HTML results as you would had you ran if from the localhost where apache knows what to do with a .php file. So... long story short, if you want PHP to display the PHP stuff, then you will need to have it interpreted by apache (or IIS, or whatever your web server software is) to have it spit back to a web browser client. Hopefully this makes sense, it is early here, i am just getting into work :(, and it made sense while i was typing it... but my coffee intake has not had time to work it's wonderful magic with me yet, so my thoughts may be scattered. Steve On Tue, 2010-10-05 at 12:57 +0100, Col Day wrote:

LOL! This is WITH xammp!! "Gary" <php-general@garydjones.name> wrote in message news:i8f26m$j4r$2@dough.gmane.org...

Col Day wrote:

""Col Day"" <colinday3@aol.com> wrote in message news:23.81.45586.2820BAC4@pb1.pair.com...

<html> <head> <title>PHP Test</title> </head> <body> <p>This is an HTML line

     </p> <!-- close your tag, you evil man! :-) -->

<?php

      echo "<p>This is a PHP line</p>";
      phpinfo();

?> </body> </html>

If I paste this into a webpage I only get the "HTML" line as before.

What do you mean, "webpage"? foo.php, for example, or foo.html? If the latter then I am guessing your Apache will serve the page purely as html, and it will never be processed by php. If the former then check that Apache is configured to run php files through php before serving them (must admit, I'm not sure how to do that, it depends on your Apache and PHP). Or, really, just install xampp, it's by far the easiest way and will avoid all the problems associated with configuring two rather complex pieces of software.