Is PHP running??

[adeptus]

Okay,

New to the PHP thing and started a project. Looked at the code, the code should work. The problem seems to be that php may not actually be running.

My questions are as follows:

1. how do I start PHP? (I assumed that is IIS was running Php would run)

2. how can I tell if php is running

3. I want to include mysql incudes & functions how do I start php with the --with--mysql=c:\mysql path extension

Thanks for the help!

Chris

[ir4z0r]

-> 1. if you configured IIS correctly, PHP works "automatically"
-> 2. create file info.php which contains

<?PHP
  phpinfo();
?>

and call it in your browser with "http://localhost/info.php"
-> 3. if I'm not mistaken, MySQL is already included in recent PHP versions,
but I may be wrong here

[adeptus]

Ok,

I have gone through the installation 3-4 times and have followed the dorections (as far as I can tell) correctly. I know IIS is working because I can do other things on it. I also tried that PHP code and it comes up with a blank page.

Chris

[echomonkey]

You need to tell IIS that pages ending with a .php extension are to be parsed as php useing the php.exe interpriter. In general you need to map the MIME type in apache you would

AddType application/x-httpd-php .php

Here is a link for manualy configureing PHP for IIS

http://www.phpbuddy.com/sub_articles.php?other_articles=4