Continuance of the struggle (trying to understand)

Hi all,

After my escapades with the real basics and realizing my laptop wasn't
logged on as Administrator, I now am trying to work out why this script
works sometimes but not others.

This is an HTML line
echo "

This is a PHP line

Re: Continuance of the struggle (trying to understand)

""Col Day"" wrote in message
news:23.81.45586.2820BAC4@pb1.pair.com...
> Hi all,
>
> After my escapades with the real basics and realizing my laptop wasn't
> logged on as Administrator, I now am trying to work out why this script
> works sometimes but not others.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>

This is an HTML line
> > echo "

This is a PHP line

Re: Re: Continuance of the struggle (trying to understand)

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Col,

Can you let us know what exactly you see when you say
http://localhost:/phptest.php
?


Regards,
Shreyas

On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 4:20 PM, Col Day wrote:

>
> ""Col Day"" wrote in message
> news:23.81.45586.2820BAC4@pb1.pair.com...
>
> Hi all,
>>
>> After my escapades with the real basics and realizing my laptop wasn't
>> logged on as Administrator, I now am trying to work out why this script
>> works sometimes but not others.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>

This is an HTML line
>> >> echo "

This is a PHP line

Re: Continuance of the struggle (trying to understand)

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Re: Re: Continuance of the struggle (trying to understand)

Hi Shreyas,

Ok, as far as I can tell the script should show "This is an HTML line"
reflecting that I am seeing the HTML part of the script followed by "This is
a PHP line" to show that PHP is installed and working fine.

If I view the script directly in IE by going to http://localhost/phptest.php
I get the output:

This is an HTML line

This is a PHP line

followed by a large and detailed list of the PHP install which includes
things like compiler language etc.

If I paste the script into a web page then all that is displayed is

This is an HTML line.

Nothing else whatsoever.

I am fairly confused. I've tried a couple of different web page creators
(Webplus 10 and Web page maker) and get the same result.

Sorry if I sound extremely naive but it's bugging me now and I want to
understand.

Cheers

"Shreyas Agasthya" wrote in message
news:AANLkTi=4ke1sTf8TaN7+EcJO-UX5CJ=t9-0qcTCFkx0+@mail.gmai l.com...
> Col,
>
> Can you let us know what exactly you see when you say
> http://localhost:/phptest.php
> ?
>
>
> Regards,
> Shreyas
>
> On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 4:20 PM, Col Day wrote:
>
>>
>> ""Col Day"" wrote in message
>> news:23.81.45586.2820BAC4@pb1.pair.com...
>>
>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> After my escapades with the real basics and realizing my laptop wasn't
>>> logged on as Administrator, I now am trying to work out why this script
>>> works sometimes but not others.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>

This is an HTML line
>>> >>> echo "

This is a PHP line

Re: Continuance of the struggle (trying to understand)

LOL!

This is WITH xammp!!



"Gary" wrote in message
news:i8f26m$j4r$2@dough.gmane.org...
> Col Day wrote:
>> ""Col Day"" wrote in message
>> news:23.81.45586.2820BAC4@pb1.pair.com...
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>

This is an HTML line
>

This is a PHP line

Re: Re: Continuance of the struggle (trying to understand)

Col:

If i am reading this correctly, then i think you're looking at this all
wrong.

If you're working within some kind of page, stored outside of the
http://localhost served by apache, like say the .php file is on the
desktop... then yeah, you're not going to get the PHP information
displayed.

(tech people bare with me here...)
PHP pages, are "compiled" when called... so you need apache to call php
and translate the PHP code so that if there is any output, it will
display that output.

If you're trying to show a .php file from teh desktop, then apache isn't
handeling this request, and therefor has no idea that there is php code
that has to be compiled, and therefore it will just ignore it.

I am sure that I am goign to get flamed for that, but i think that it
kinda simplifies what apache does for php.

NOW... you can run a php file from the command line, but you're not
going to get the HTML results as you would had you ran if from the
localhost where apache knows what to do with a .php file.

So... long story short, if you want PHP to display the PHP stuff, then
you will need to have it interpreted by apache (or IIS, or whatever your
web server software is) to have it spit back to a web browser client.

Hopefully this makes sense, it is early here, i am just getting into
work :(, and it made sense while i was typing it... but my coffee intake
has not had time to work it's wonderful magic with me yet, so my
thoughts may be scattered.

Steve



On Tue, 2010-10-05 at 12:57 +0100, Col Day wrote:
> LOL!
>
> This is WITH xammp!!
>
>
>
> "Gary" wrote in message
> news:i8f26m$j4r$2@dough.gmane.org...
> > Col Day wrote:
> >> ""Col Day"" wrote in message
> >> news:23.81.45586.2820BAC4@pb1.pair.com...
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>

This is an HTML line
> >

This is a PHP line

Re: Re: Continuance of the struggle (trying to understand)

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"If I paste the script into a web page"

What do you mean by "paste the script into a web page"? Can you tell us
exactly what you are doing when you do that?


Chris.



On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 7:54 AM, Col Day wrote:

> Hi Shreyas,
>
> Ok, as far as I can tell the script should show "This is an HTML line"
> reflecting that I am seeing the HTML part of the script followed by "This is
> a PHP line" to show that PHP is installed and working fine.
>
> If I view the script directly in IE by going to
> http://localhost/phptest.php I get the output:
>
>
> This is an HTML line
>
> This is a PHP line
>
> followed by a large and detailed list of the PHP install which includes
> things like compiler language etc.
>
> If I paste the script into a web page then all that is displayed is
>
> This is an HTML line.
>
> Nothing else whatsoever.
>
> I am fairly confused. I've tried a couple of different web page creators
> (Webplus 10 and Web page maker) and get the same result.
>
> Sorry if I sound extremely naive but it's bugging me now and I want to
> understand.
>
> Cheers
>
> "Shreyas Agasthya" wrote in message
> news:AANLkTi=4ke1sTf8TaN7+EcJO-UX5CJ=t9-0qcTCFkx0+@mail.gmai l.com...
>
> Col,
>>
>> Can you let us know what exactly you see when you say
>> http://localhost:/phptest.php
>> ?
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Shreyas
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 4:20 PM, Col Day wrote:
>>
>>
>>> ""Col Day"" wrote in message
>>> news:23.81.45586.2820BAC4@pb1.pair.com...
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>>>
>>>> After my escapades with the real basics and realizing my laptop wasn't
>>>> logged on as Administrator, I now am trying to work out why this script
>>>> works sometimes but not others.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>

This is an HTML line
>>>> >>>> echo "

This is a PHP line

RE: Re: Continuance of the struggle (trying to understand)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Col Day [mailto:colinday3@aol.com]
> Sent: 05 October 2010 12:55
> To: php-general@lists.php.net
> Subject: Re: [PHP] Re: Continuance of the struggle (trying to
> understand)
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> Hi Shreyas,
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> Ok, as far as I can tell the script should show "This is an HTML
> line"
> reflecting that I am seeing the HTML part of the script followed by
> "This is
> a PHP line" to show that PHP is installed and working fine.
>=20
> If I view the script directly in IE by going to
> http://localhost/phptest.php
> I get the output:
>=20
> This is an HTML line
>=20
> This is a PHP line
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> followed by a large and detailed list of the PHP install which
> includes
> things like compiler language etc.
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> If I paste the script into a web page then all that is displayed is

What on earth does this mean? http://localhost/phptest.php *is* a web page =
-- especially as you have structured it as PHP within HTML -- so why would =
you want to paste the code anywhere else?

I think your concepts are a little skew-whiff, and you need to explain what=
it is you think you're trying to do in more detail so that we can spot whe=
re it is that your understanding is wrong.

Cheers!

Mike
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Re: Re: Continuance of the struggle (trying to understand)

At 12:54 PM +0100 10/5/10, Col Day wrote:
>Hi Shreyas,
>
>Ok, as far as I can tell the script should show "This is an HTML
>line" reflecting that I am seeing the HTML part of the script
>followed by "This is a PHP line" to show that PHP is installed and
>working fine.

Col:

Do this:

1. Create a file and entitle it "index.php" (without quotes)
2. Enter "" (without quotes)
3. Save the file.
4. Upload the file to your host.
5. Open a browser and enter the url (i.e., http://yourdomain.com/index.php)

What do you see?

Cheers,

tedd


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Re: Re: Continuance of the struggle (trying to understand)

At 1:56 PM -0400 10/5/10, tedd wrote:
>At 12:54 PM +0100 10/5/10, Col Day wrote:
>>Hi Shreyas,
>>
>>Ok, as far as I can tell the script should show "This is an HTML
>>line" reflecting that I am seeing the HTML part of the script
>>followed by "This is a PHP line" to show that PHP is installed and
>>working fine.
>
>Col:
>
>Do this:
>
>1. Create a file and entitle it "index.php" (without quotes)
>2. Enter "" (without quotes)
>3. Save the file.
>4. Upload the file to your host.
>5. Open a browser and enter the url (i.e., http://yourdomain.com/index.php)
>
>What do you see?
>
>Cheers,
>
>tedd


Col:

You don't have to tell what you see, but rather do you see anything?

Cheers,

tedd

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Re: Re: Continuance of the struggle (trying to understand)

On Tue, 2010-10-05 at 14:32 -0400, tedd wrote:
> At 1:56 PM -0400 10/5/10, tedd wrote:
> >At 12:54 PM +0100 10/5/10, Col Day wrote:
> >>Hi Shreyas,
> >>
> >>Ok, as far as I can tell the script should show "This is an HTML
> >>line" reflecting that I am seeing the HTML part of the script
> >>followed by "This is a PHP line" to show that PHP is installed and
> >>working fine.
> >
> >Col:
> >
> >Do this:
> >
> >1. Create a file and entitle it "index.php" (without quotes)
> >2. Enter "" (without quotes)
> >3. Save the file.
> >4. Upload the file to your host.
> >5. Open a browser and enter the url (i.e., http://yourdomain.com/index.php)
> >
> >What do you see?
> >
> >Cheers,
> >
> >tedd
>
>
> Col:
>
> You don't have to tell what you see, but rather do you see anything?
>
> Cheers,
>
> tedd
>
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>
Tedd:

He is working off his localhost, running on vista... so what it seems
(to me at least) is that he is getting the php to work when he uses the
localhost, but when he tries to open a php file from say his desktop, he
doesn't see the php stuff... which is exactly as designed since running
form your desktop, php does not execute the code...

i am guessing that he just needs to use his localhost directory.

Steve.


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Re: Re: Continuance of the struggle (trying to understand)

Morning all,

Apologies for the delay, I've just become a Dad for the first time so a
little distracted!

If I explain exactly what I am trying to do then it may become clear as to
where I'm going wrong.

Needless to say, new baby so want to show him off (Callum, 7lb4oz) so
decided to buy a webname and pay for hosting, however money is a bit tight,
so being adventurous (or stupid, not sure which yet) I set up apache on my
laptop and started writing a website in Serif's WebPlus10. However I wanted
to have an upload area on the site for friends and family to send their
pictures of Callum (and the family and anything else they wanted) so there
was a central "store". However I tried to find some html to handle the
upload of these files but wasn't able to work it out, google and various
other bitsx of research on the net showed that I probably needed to run a
script to do this and PHP seemed the simplest, so I downloaded PHP 5.3.3 and
installed it.

This is where it started getting tricky as I was using the PHP for dummies
book from 2006. I typed that piece of code in (direct from the book) but
added it as an html attachment into my site I was building. Uploaded the
site to my localhost and had a look. I only got the HTML line from the
script. This is where I started contacting you bunch of fine programmers!

I have now learned that if I save the script as a .php file and navigate
direct to it on localhost it works fine, but I think what I am trying to do
is get it to work in an existing webpage so that I can then get my upload
working.

Any help you can offer from explanantions to whole bits of code will be
greatly received!

Many thanks!

"Steve Staples" wrote in message
news:1286281586.4703.63.camel@webdev01...
> Col:
>
> If i am reading this correctly, then i think you're looking at this all
> wrong.
>
> If you're working within some kind of page, stored outside of the
> http://localhost served by apache, like say the .php file is on the
> desktop... then yeah, you're not going to get the PHP information
> displayed.
>
> (tech people bare with me here...)
> PHP pages, are "compiled" when called... so you need apache to call php
> and translate the PHP code so that if there is any output, it will
> display that output.
>
> If you're trying to show a .php file from teh desktop, then apache isn't
> handeling this request, and therefor has no idea that there is php code
> that has to be compiled, and therefore it will just ignore it.
>
> I am sure that I am goign to get flamed for that, but i think that it
> kinda simplifies what apache does for php.
>
> NOW... you can run a php file from the command line, but you're not
> going to get the HTML results as you would had you ran if from the
> localhost where apache knows what to do with a .php file.
>
> So... long story short, if you want PHP to display the PHP stuff, then
> you will need to have it interpreted by apache (or IIS, or whatever your
> web server software is) to have it spit back to a web browser client.
>
> Hopefully this makes sense, it is early here, i am just getting into
> work :(, and it made sense while i was typing it... but my coffee intake
> has not had time to work it's wonderful magic with me yet, so my
> thoughts may be scattered.
>
> Steve
>
>
>
> On Tue, 2010-10-05 at 12:57 +0100, Col Day wrote:
>> LOL!
>>
>> This is WITH xammp!!
>>
>>
>>
>> "Gary" wrote in message
>> news:i8f26m$j4r$2@dough.gmane.org...
>> > Col Day wrote:
>> >> ""Col Day"" wrote in message
>> >> news:23.81.45586.2820BAC4@pb1.pair.com...
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>

This is an HTML line
>> >

This is a PHP line