Monday, March 22, 2004

Apache/PHP/MySQL

I want to learn MySQL.  I don't really know what all is involved.  So I asked about it and was recommended IBServer.  This program conveniently setup the three programs that I needed:  an Apache server, PHP, and MySQL.  I did have a little trouble getting it to work, but I eventually figured out what was missing.

Once I got that far I didn't really know where to go next.  Eventually I found a forum that mentioned IBServer, and that I needed to put my PHP files in C:\IBServer\www  So I put columns.php in there and sure enough the program attempted to parse the PHP.  Except that I use absolute URLs in my includes, and I got an error instead of the include.  Apparently the server wouldn't parse an online link to an include.  I can't remember the error I got, and now I'm not getting anything.  Even changing the includes to relative URLs, the PHP includes are still in the source unparsed.

In the meantime, I'm going to read this tutorial:  PHP From the Ground Up