help, i'm new

fiorelina21

I've downloaded & installed essyphp 2.0 package.in the php directory there are two files: php(ini-reccomended) and php(ini-dist).
one of them has the register globals on and on the other one they aare set on off.
which one is the file where the modifies should be made?
is there any other configuration that i should change or easyphp makes all the necessary configuration changes itself?

please have patience, as i' ve first said, i'm a newbie. this is the first time i use php

bradgrafelman

I can't answer your question directly because I've never used EasyPHP (I've always advocated manually installing PHP, Apache, and MySQL using the installer packages from their respective websites).

I can, however, tell you that there should be a "php.ini" file in your PHP directory; if not, then you must rename one (probably the recommended one) and go through it to ensure that the paths/options are set as you would like. If you need help figuring out what one of the directives in that file mean, take a look at the appedix in the PHP manual for the list of PHP directives.

I would assume that this installation is simply a development server and not a production server, correct? If so, you can go ahead and make sure display_errors is set to On and error_reporting to E_ALL | E_STRICT to ensure that you can see all errors while developing your applications. Also note that register_globals and magic_quotes_gpc should be off.

fiorelina21

which is the difference between a development server and a production server???

bradgrafelman

A development server is one reserved for developing applications; it is not the server that the outside world sees when they visit your website. The server they see instead is the production server.

For example, my website is hosted by some large company. When I make new applications or edit existing PHP scripts, however, I do all of the modifications and testing on my development server, which is simply my home PC that I've installed Apache/PHP/MySQL on (and yes, I try to keep the version numbers the same as what the hosting company uses).

fiorelina21

should i keep easyphp installed or it's better that i install separately Apache, Php and MySql?