\n \t help...

xfluous

hi there,

very new to PHP..

i was trying to learn until i stumbled onto this problem..

I tried

print "Hello \n World";

and

echo "Hello \n Word";

both still displayed as Hello Word instead of Hello <next line> world..

learn other programming languages before but this is puzzling..

sijis

i think you might want to use HTML tags to get your effect.

so try this:

echo "Hello <br> World";
print "Hello <br> World";
they should give you the same result.

now when you do
echo "Hello \n World";
print "Hello \n World";
you will not see it in the output HTML page, but in the source of that page. Basically just do View > Source if you are using Internet Explorer and you will somewhat notice what i'm saying.
I just can't explain it.....

xfluous

okie thanks...

using <Br>

anyway do ya know of any sites that can teach ya how to install php and apache 2.0 on WinXP?

cause i realise that whenever i try to do a "post" or "get"

the subsequent page cannot receive the variable..

i also get the error say that the variables are undefine..

teh examples were copied from a book and it worked fine on my web server host by someone.

tsinka

Hi,

the binary apache and php packages/installers for windows contain INSTALL howto's.

I think the examples you use were written for previous releases of php. In recent version register_globals (which is in php.ini) is set to off per default. You cannot access those variables directly as $variablename.

You can access get variables with

$_GET['variablename']

and post variables with

$_POST['variablename']

I hope I could help you a bit 🙂

Thomas

xfluous

oic.. humm maybe that is y i can get the variables..

reinstalled mySQL, php, and apache 5 times today =(

is there anyway i can turn them on as i need to syn with the codes over on my other server?

thanks

tsinka

If you installed php like mentioned in the install readme there should be a php.ini in /etc/php.ini (Unix) or C:\windows or C:\winnt (windows, system root).

In that php.ini there is one line like register_globals = Off. If you replace it with register_globals = On it should work. Don't forget to restart apache after modifying php.ini.

If you can't find php.ini then simply create a script like e.g. info.php and put the following code in it:

<?PHP
phpinfo();
?>

That would output the info page. Near the top of the info page is a line showing where php searches for the php.ini. If there is no php.ini you might want to place one of the example php.ini files of the php package there and to edit it.

xfluous

THANK YOU
THANK YOU
THANK YOU

it is working already..

seems like it is the global variable set to off...

thank you very much =)