Help for error message

training_skill

Hi folks

I am just new to php

what I used is Apache 1.3, php4.0,
running on windows xp system.

the problem is I cant use $_ENV to display any environment variable

and the most terrible thing isI can not see any error message when it display in explorer IE or Firefox
so it is pretty hard for me to find syntax errors !

anyone can help me ?!!!

cheers

what I did to install PHP and Apache are:

my php is on c:\php
php.ini-recommended change php.ini and copy to c:\windows\
php4ts.ini to c:\windows\system32

then configure the apache
#configure the apache

Add to the end of the LoadModule section

LoadModule php4_module "c:/php/sapi/php4apache.dll"

Add to the end of the AddModule section

AddModule mod_php4.c

AddType application/x-httpd-php .php

then restart apache

it works with htdocs\ directory pages

dalecosp

training_skill wrote:
Hi folks

the problem is I cant use $_ENV to display any environment variable

and the most terrible thing isI can not see any error message when it display in explorer IE or Firefox
so it is pretty hard for me to find syntax errors !

Well, IIRC, PHP now ships with display_errors OFF in the default installation. My guess for the real reason ... they got tired of gettting emails asking why their error message was on somebody's favorite website.

But seriously, it isn't a good idea for a production webserver to echo error message to the browser. You're running apache --- the error messages should be in the server's error logs. You could also consider writing your own error handlers, or, if it's a machine only for production/testing, enable display_errors in your php.ini file.

As for ENV, I'm probably not much help. What exactly does

print_r($_ENV);

output?