Help setting up php 5

[netslick]

Trying to setup PHP5 on apache 2.05

Had this all working before but reinstalled my OS and now can't get it working right.

It works to a point but doesn't show errors and a few other things don't seem to work, this happened before and i fixed it though can't remember exactly what i did, i seem to remember thinking that apache wasn't linking to the php.ini properly or something.

Using windows 98.

In apache httpd.conf i have added.

ServerRoot "C:/server/Apache2"
PHPIniDir "C:/windows" <-- does this need to be in any particular place in httpd.conf

loadmodule php5_module C:/php/php5apache2.dll

DocumentRoot "C:/myroot"

<Directory "C:/myroot">

ScriptAlias /php/ "c:/php/"

AddType application/x-httpd-php .php .html

and have put php.ini in c:\windows and added

extension_dir = "C:/php/ext"
SMTP = smtp.tiscali.co.uk

and have unchecked extensions,

extension=php_mbstring.dll
extension=php_gettext.dll
extension=php_mysql.dll

have also put

php5ts.dll in c:\windows\system
libmysql.dll in both c:\windows and c:\windows\system not sure which one
php_mysql.dll in both c:\windows and c:\windows\system not sure which one

now i'm 99% sure thats exactly what i did first time i set this up and it all worked.

php does work for most things but as i said no errors are displayed if there is a misake in the php it just gives a blank page, or $HTTP_GET_VARS doesnt seem to work, if i did,

<?php

$s = $HTTP_GET_VARS['s'];
echo $s;

?>

then http://localhost/phptest.php?s=test

i just get a blank page whereas

<?php


echo "test";

?>

works fine.

Totally stuck!

[laserlight]

What happens if you use the modern:

<?php
if (isset($_GET['s'])) echo $_GET['s'];
?>

[netslick]

Hi,

Both,

<?php 
echo $_GET['s']; 
?> 

and

<?php 
if (isset($_GET['s'])) echo $_GET['s']; 
?> 

work fine, seems that $HTTP_GET_VARS doesn't properly other thing to probably.

As i said if i did

<?php 
if (isset($_GET['s'])) echo $_GET['s']; 
r=1
?> 

then i just get a blankpage, should say something like

undefined index r on line 3

or some error.

Some dll or configuring is missing somewhere i think.

[laserlight]

In that case, unless you absolutely have to run outdated code that uses the $HTTPVARS predefined variables, just use the newer $_ predefined superglobal variables.

If the former is your case, then set register_long_arrays to On in php.ini

[netslick]

that helps but do you have any idea whats casuing the problem?

[netslick]

Ok just noticed something, i get ALL the errors in the apache error log, if i use an $HTTP_GET_VARS it gives

Notice: Undefined variable: HTTP_GET_VARS in

also for the last one where i added r=1 that error comes up right in the log etc..

but,

1) Why aren't the errors showing in the php page
2) Why isn't http_get_vars working

it must be an apache configuring problem.