Posted by Billy Hates on 12/16/05 00:11

On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 16:49:21 -0500, Jeff B wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Im learning PHP along with MySql. I installed MySql with no problem and
> have completed several tutorials to learn it. Now when trying to use PHP
> code within an html page it dosn't display anything,even with a simple
> display command.
>
> I installed the newest version of PHP(windows installer) and MySql on my
> home PC to do these tutorials and connect seem to get PHP working. Im sure
> its just a setting that im not properly configuring upon install of PHP or
> perhaps i have to install another piece of software to act as a webserver?
> is this needed even for pc testing?
>
> Any help on this would be great.
>
> Thanx.
> Jeff.
PHP is just a component of a web-server. PHP generates an HTML output that
should be viewed in a web browser. You certainly may redirect all PHP
output in a file, then open it with Mozilla as a local file. But it's much
easier and convenient to use some web server as a medium between PHP and
your browser. So it's true that you have to install a webserver even for
pc testing. Seek the Web. There should be a number of free simple web
servers for windows. At least you can use Apache from apache.org

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