Posted by dorayme on 02/12/07 00:30

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<doraymeRidThis-1F3292.15220511022007@news-vip.optusnet.com.au>,
dorayme <doraymeRidThis@optusnet.com.au> wrote:


I have PHP installed on my Mac Tiger and it works fine. It is
version 4.4.1

In my efforts to understand and work with a database, I have now
downloaded a mysql-standard-5.0.27-osx10.4-powerpc.pkg.

To tell whether one has php installed (apart from seeing if
includes and stuff are working, there is a simple test: run a
phpInfoPanels.php file from the server in which the only text is:

<?php phpinfo() ?>

My question is this: what, please, is as simple a way to tell if
the installation of MySQL is successful?

Doubtless the question reveals ignorance! But that is how it is
and I am trying to cure it. I am not even sure of the very nature
and logic of what I have installed. I have got as far as vaguely
understanding that this database direction involves both

(a) A database server (some sort of software that somehow stores
and controls and serves or delivers things databasewise)

and

(b) A "client" program which enables one to communicate with this
server so one can make new databases, change old ones and
generally geek away and stay young.

So I have installed the package. What now, there are no whistles
or flags or jumping gifs when I go to a page I made that gives a
menu of my sites on my server. For all the world this corner is
as quiet as before I installed the package. I would appreciate a
hint of what to do next that promises to turn on some practical
light for me.

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dorayme

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