Re: [PHP-WIN] Question from a total newb

2002-11-21 Thread Dash McElroy
So, if you want to use MySQL, create yourself a database and some tables with the fields you like in phpMyAdmin, then connect PHP to the database. If you download a PHP script that requires MySQL support, you'll likely have to tell it what host, user and password MySQL requires. Depending on the s

Re: [PHP-WIN] Question from a total newb

2002-11-21 Thread Dash McElroy
"You musn't produce sloppy code with no comments, no error checking, no indentation and no proper presentation of results until you're an expert!" Great... So as soon as I started programming in PHP, I became an expert... and now that I'm properly indenting my code and (finally) starting to use co

Re: [PHP-WIN] Question from a total newb

2002-11-21 Thread erythros
??? where did you get PHP 4.3.2 ??? the php website only has 4.2.3 and i could get that to work with Apache 2 "Davy Obdam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message 01c2912a$a5cf5ec0$960a@hewlett0bg96om">news:01c2912a$a5cf5ec0$960a@hewlett0bg96om... > Hi Joe, > > You only need either Apa

Re: [PHP-WIN] Question from a total newb

2002-11-21 Thread Joe Finlinson
ok... for example because I have no idea how to do this on my own... I found a php calendar, and these were the install instructions: ltwCalendar v1.5 written by Matt Wade - http://codewalkers.com demo of ltwCalendar at http://codewalkers.com/cal/calendar.php I don't care for all that license crap

Re: [PHP-WIN] Question from a total newb

2002-11-21 Thread Joe Finlinson
You are all helping me SOOO much! I did manage to download myphpadmin... and by some miracle got through the installation process. It is a pretty slick program although I have no idea what I am looking at. I have learned more in the last 10 hours than I ever thought possible, although I haven't

Re: [PHP-WIN] Question from a total newb

2002-11-21 Thread Cam Dunstan
hey Joe, You ought to try some of those tools for MySQL Dash recommends, there`s some beauties amongst them, especially phpmyadmin. In the meantime, here is a little script, quick and dirty that will let you look at a database and generate some basic queries and forms for you. Just copy and paste

Re: [PHP-WIN] Question from a total newb

2002-11-20 Thread Dash McElroy
Sounds cool. PHP has been a great tool for the past 2.5 years for me. It most certainly has come in handy. The calendar at calendar.codewalkers.com looks slick. I would heavily advise getting a book so you have a piece of paper you can turn to or flip to. A good one is PHP and MySQL Web Developme

Re: [PHP-WIN] Question from a total newb

2002-11-20 Thread Joe Finlinson
> Here's a grand question: What do you want to do with PHP? Interactive > forms? Interactive content? Website counter? etc... I am a college student who is in way over his head. I am having a lot of fun, and learning a lot, but for what was supposed to be a writing 3400 class, I feel this is a li

Re: [PHP-WIN] Question from a total newb

2002-11-20 Thread Dash McElroy
Glad I could be of assistance. I had a hard time getting the hang of MySQL, so I downloaded phpMyAdmin (www.phpmyadmin.net), set it up, and watched the SQL commands fly. Try this: mysql -u -p (it should ask you for a password) Here's a grand question: What do you want to do with PHP? Interact

RE: [PHP-WIN] Question from a total newb

2002-11-20 Thread Davy Obdam
Hi Joe, You only need either Apache or IIS, not both. I am also running WinXP, but i have Home edition so i have no choice other then to run Apache, but Apache is better anyways;-) I have Apache 2.0.40 (http://httpd.apache.org/) with PHP 4.3.2( http://www.php.net/downloads.php) and MySQL 3.23.52(

Re: [PHP-WIN] Question from a total newb

2002-11-20 Thread Joe Finlinson
Thank you for your help... by some miracle and with your advice things seem to be working ok. However, I am having a heck of a time figuring out how mysql works into the whole thing. I was trying to follow a tutorial that came with dreamweaver, and it just gets me all confused. I setup a user an

Re: [PHP-WIN] Question from a total newb

2002-11-20 Thread Dash McElroy
Alright, I'll take the bait. 1. If you've got IIS installed, why are you trying to install Apache? Choose one or the other. 2. Configuration for either server should be drop dead easy. The PHP installer exe file should configure IIS (I don't use IIS, fortunately), and the zip file contains what y