Posted by Miles Thompson on 07/29/05 14:37

Bob,

Try two things:

1. create a small file, name it phpinfo.php, which consists of these lines:
<?
phpinfo();
?>

2. upload it to your web site

3. run it - http://<www.your.url>/phpinfo.php
where www.your.url is the address of yorur site.

A. If PHP is installed, you will get a page full of information. It will
include information on the database support, if any, which is compiled into
PHP, the web server used for the site, and so forth.

B. If PHP is NOT installed, those three lines of code will echo back to you.

Where to go from here? Either ask the ISP to provide the necessary
software, or shift to a different host.
Many PHP applications rely on a back-end database, usually MySQL, because a
database is the most efficient way to store and retrieve data.

Hope this is helpful, and that I've not repeated what others have advised.

Regards - Miles Thompson

At 07:47 PM 7/28/2005, Bob Stia wrote:
>Hello PHP list
>
>First allow me to apologize if this is the wrong place for this and
>direct me to the proper place. (be nice now!)
>
>I know nothing about PHP and have read at least 100 faqs and googled for
>hours. I don't even know some of the basics.
>
>Allow me to explain. I am the webmaster for a small web site for a
>Florida car club. The members have been asking if they could post info
>about events, communicate community wide, maybe post their own
>Classified ads, etc,
>
>I would like to comply with their wishes for an email/blog kind of thing
>but don't have the foggiest notion where to begin. The googling/faq's
>don't help me a bit and appears to be pretty complicated. I don't even
>know the basics. I really have no desire to go into a steep learning
>curve to accomplish what should be a pretty simple thing. I need simple
>and easy.
>
>I have composed in straight html (not that much,but enough) and with
>several GUI's. (all open source Linux based) I compose on my system and
>then simply upload to the site with FTP. I have found a few PHP
>packages but are not sure what they do. They require PHP, MySQL or
>Postgres, and Apache. Do I really need to install Apache? (The site is
>hosted by a commercial remote ISP as a courtesy/good will thing and I
>think they support PHP but do not wish to place any burden on them to
>support the site) Do I really need a data base?
>
>Please be patient and point the old guy in the right direction.
>
>Thanks,
>Bob S.
>
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