I am new to PHP

[Danesh_D]

Hello,

I am very very new to PHP. Please don´t laugh at me !!! 😉 I have downloaded PHP interpreter fron www.php.net and also Apache from its official site and have installed them both, already. My goal is to be able to write PHP scripts and test the scripts also with the relation of HTML form, which is the main job of a web server. I thought that I could localy set up a server on my system by installing Apache but it didn´t work. PHP interpreter also works fine, but only for stand alone scripts not for scripts whivh get their input from a HTML form. Can you please guide me what to do ?

Regards,

Danesh Daroui

[planetsim]

I suggest reading the stickied threads in the newbie forum i posted a tutorial on how to install Apache/PHP hopefully that should help you get started.

Also welcome to PHPBuilder

[alanzhao]

I thought that I could localy set up a server on my system by installing Apache but it didn´t work. PHP interpreter also works fine,

How do you get PHP interpreter to work if the Apache webserver isn't working?

but only for stand alone scripts not for scripts whivh get their input from a HTML form

What do you mean by stand alone scripts? Examples?

First of all, you should get both of PHP and apache to work, and then read some tutorials might help.

[Weedpacket]

Originally posted by alanzhao
How do you get PHP interpreter to work if the Apache webserver isn't working?

What do you mean by stand alone scripts? Examples?

http://www.php.net/manual/en/features.commandline.php

Danesh_D: Processing form submissions from a browser involves using http, so a web server is required to deal with those. You don't for communicating via the command line or through file access however.

[Danesh_D]

Hello,

Stand alone scripts mean scripts which does not neet input from a form to run and they run only by its local or global variables. These kinds of scripts ar actually useless and they can be used only in educational purposes. It could be just an
echo "Something..." script !!! I used PHP interpreter without Apache by interpreting my scripts by using PHP command line. There is a file which is PHP.exe when you install PHP. With this parameter
PHP filename
it will interpret your script and you will see the result, but not for scripts which need input from other forms. Anyway, I do know that I should use a web server which is PHP enabled, but I wanted to test my scripts at my home and not to buy a domain just for testing my scripts. I want to see if it possiblle and how !!!

Regards,

Danesh Daroui

[Abhishek_RP]

Hi Danesh Daroui,

I suggest you to refer the Book "PHP Bible" by Tim Converse & Joyce Park. As your a Beginner in PHP the book is good. In that book he writes about the Installing the PHP also.

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