Posted by Tom on 04/18/07 16:48

On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 20:41:51 GMT, Ian_patterson wrote...
>
>I'm a newbie to PHP and I can't get started so this may sound like a mundane
>question to you professionals.
>I am using Windows XP Pro and have IIS 5.1 to be the server. I installed PHP
>5.2.1 straight from PHP.net and it seems to have installed correctly.
>I created a test page on Notepad and saved as test.php into
>c:\inetpub\wwwroot\test
>when I view it in IE 7 I see the script instead of the output. What am I
>doing wrong please. I'm sure it's something simple. I've checked and
>rechecked the syntax, I've copied code from the web all with the same
>result.
>Any help appreciated. Thanks.
>
>


PHP usually has to be built with your web server installation. With Linux or
Unix there's usually a package you can download and install that would include
PHP and likely MySQL. IF you installed them independently you probably need to
link them up with each other.

Tom
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