RE: [PHP] Questions about simple php problems

Answers are numbered according to questions. 1. Contact your hosting provider about this one. 2. Unless the webserver is instructed to let php handle html files, you cannot include php code within html. It has to be a php file so php can process it. 3. Again, contact your hosting provider and ask them to make index.php one of the default files for your web. 4. I use Cold Fusion Studio (the advanced version of Homesite), it rocks when coding, but since the wysiwyg in CFS sucks, I do that in Frontpage, then copy the html code to Homesite. However, I just got Dreamweaver 4 and it seems to combine all the features of those two and much more, so I'm gradually switching over. 5. Use javascript or stylesheets. 6. Go to php.net and mysql.com. Read their very fine documentation, and it should help you get started. PHP can accept variables both from form fields and in hyperlinks as well as cookies or databases or even textfiles. It's extraordinarily flexible and basically it comes down to what YOU want, and what you feel comfortable with. -----Original Message----- From: Jericho Barimen [mailto:jericho_barimen@yahoo.com] Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2001 2:28 PM To: php-general@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP] Questions about simple php problems Hello everybody, I would like to ask you for some help with PHP. I am a newbie both to the list and to PHP. I try to learn from the books and manuals, but there are some things I do mnot understand and I can't read it anywhere in the books. Please take a moment and reply to my mail. I know that such problems as I have may seem lame to most of you, descent programmers, but I am really desperate to learn. Unfortunately I am not a programmer by profesion. Let me list the problems I have. 1. I registered my domain and I input the right DNs numbers. After I uploaded html file index.html onto the server, using ftp program, everything was fine. However, I also uploaded file called test.html. After I typed in my domain url address with /test.html the file was not working. What do I do wrong? 2. Now on with PHP... I tried to write php scripts inside html files... Simple scripts with <?php .... ?> Can I do that? Will it work? I think php program is installed on the server I am using, but the php seems not to work. What do I do wrong? 3. Now suppose I write a seperate php script as a seperate file, like test.php. How do I refer to it from html file in order to make the php script work? And can I start my web page directly with php? If so how? 4. What program or editor do you people use in order to simply "write" or "code" html and php? Till now I was using Netscape Composer for simple html editing. But I am sure there are some programming tools... I've heard there is something like JBuilder, but some friends of mine tell me it is too powerful tool. Do you agree? What programming tools would you recommend for me to code php? What programs do you use? 5. I would like to have a link on my web page that when I move my mouse cursor on it, it changes and becomes, for example, underlines or bold or changes color. How can I do that? How do I do that in php? 6. How can I refer to data base records? If I want to store date or get data and print it out... Is it only using cgi and FORM tags? Are there any other ways to do that? I would very much appreciate, if people like you, good programmers could help me and just reply to my points. Please elaborate, the more you write, teh better I can understand. It would mean a lot to me if someone could comment or 'enlighten' me. There are things I can't find in books and tutorials. Thank you and I await your replies. Jericho __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - Buy the things you want at great prices. http://auctions.yahoo.com/ -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net