Installing PHP Website

solostbutwhy

I'm 99.9% I have my server setup, EasyPHP running Apache & MySQL, the website in the www folder of EasyPHP, I've imported the _mysql_data.sql of the site using myphpadmin but I don't what to do in the config/config.php file. I don't have a domain, I just want to setup the website on my computer to view it and get to know it. I get a parse error:

Parse error: parse error in c:\program files\easyphp1-8\www\ladderscript2\config\config.php on line 102

In the config its the url, directory & file names section. What I've changed is:

$url[base] ='http://localhost/LadderScript2/themes/';
$url[themes] ='http://localhost/LadderScript2/themes/';

$dir[base] ='C:\Program Files\EasyPHP1-8\www\LadderScript2\'
$dir[func] ='C:\Program Files\EasyPHP1-8\www\LadderScript2\functions\';
$dir[themes] ='C:\Program Files\EasyPHP1-8\www\LadderScript2\themes\';

This is where I'm getting confused. I'm not sure what to put in here. I do have a Functions & Themes folders within my LadderScript2 folder.

I've searched for literature with "installing a php website" but most guides tell you there's a wizard that will run getting all the info you need to know. If anyone can point me to some literature to help me out with this and/or give some pointers here, I would really appreciate the help.

bpat1434

The error is the unterminated line: $dir[base]. You need to end each line with a ";".

solostbutwhy

corrected that mistake. still giving the same error. line 102 is the $dir[base] line. if someone can explain the steps for me to take on "How to install a php website", I would appreciate it. Or point me to a reference of some sort. I am very ignorant in php as it is.

sid

in addition to the semicolon you already added, try

$dir[base] ='C:\\Program Files\\EasyPHP1-8\\www\\LadderScript2\\';
$dir[func] ='C:\\Program Files\\EasyPHP1-8\\www\\LadderScript2\\functions\\';
$dir[themes] ='C:\\Program Files\\EasyPHP1-8\\www\\LadderScript2\\themes\\';

while the code should compile fine if there wasnt the "\" at the end of the line (before the quotes), the backslash is an escape character. Thus, it pretty much escapes each character following it (f.ex. the "P" in "Program Files") and create nonsense. Also, it escapes the closing quote at the end of your line, thus making PHP think that this is an unterminated string.
If you want to use the backslash as a part of a string, you need to escape the "\" with the escape character (since it has a special meaning in php), which happens to be a backslash too. that should fix your problem.

if i remember correctly, forward slashes should work too btw - such as:

$dir[base] ='C:/Program Files/EasyPHP1-8/www/LadderScript2/';
$dir[func] ='C:/Program Files/EasyPHP1-8/www/LadderScript2/functions/';
$dir[themes] ='C:/Program Files/EasyPHP1-8/www/LadderScript2/themes/';

bradgrafelman

In fact, if you'll post your code using the board's

 tags, you'll see that the backslashes are indeed escaping the quotes:

[code=php]$url[base] ='http://localhost/LadderScript2/themes/';
$url[themes] ='http://localhost/LadderScript2/themes/';

$dir[base] ='C:\Program Files\EasyPHP1-8\www\LadderScript2\'
$dir[func] ='C:\Program Files\EasyPHP1-8\www\LadderScript2\functions\';
$dir[themes] ='C:\Program Files\EasyPHP1-8\www\LadderScript2\themes\';

Also, array indeces in your case should be strings. $row[name] does not have a string as an index, but a constant. PHP will detect this (assuming there actually isn't a constant named 'name') and throw an E_NOTICE and then assume it is a string. So, use quotes: $row['name'].

solostbutwhy

I changed the back-slashes to forward-slashes, added in the quotes to the $cmd['name'], saved, checked the address and received a black webpage stating:

"The Dataserver is Currently Down
We will get it back up as soon as possible."

Which is set at the end of the config file.

So I have the config file all set (Thanks guys). Now it seems I need some help with the database.

First I copied the website to the www directory in EasyPHP.

I then opened up phpMyAdmin.

Created database named "ladder".

Clicked on the SQL link.

Browsed for the location of the text file. In this case its C:\Program Files\EasyPHP1-8\www\LadderScript2_MySQL_data.sql
Clicked "Go" (to upload).

Received message "Your SQL-query has been executed successfully".

As far as I know, thats all I needed to do. Any thoughts? Maybe setup a username and password somewhere?

bpat1434

Do you execute a query in your code? Do you connect to a database? Once you've execute the SQL in phpMyAdmin, you then need to use the [man]mysql_connect[/man], [man]mysql_select_db[/man], [man]mysql_query[/man], and [man]mysql_fetch_array[/man] to connect to a server, select a database, execute a query, and fetch an array of results.