ID:               13794
 Updated by:       alindeman@[...].net
-Summary:          Unclear to PHP novice: minimum necessary config for
                   "hello"
 Reported By:      daveaikm@[...].com
-Status:           Open
+Status:           Feedback
 Bug Type:         Documentation problem
 Operating System: RH Linux 7.0 / Apache / Netscape
 PHP Version:      4.0.6
 New Comment:

Which page is this? I'm looking for a URL here....



Previous Comments:
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[2001-10-23 01:30:26] daveaikm@[...].com

Suggested change to introductory tutorial:

Section is "Your first PHP-enabled page"

Currently:

Create a file named hello.php and in it ...

Suggested update:

Create a file named "hello.php" in your server web directory and in it
...

================================

Currently:

This program is extremely simple ...

Suggested update: add following sentence, preceding current.

Use your browser to access the file with your web access URL, ending
with the "/hello.php" file reference.



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[2001-10-23 01:05:50] daveaikm@[...].com

Situation: old, used programmer just learning Linux PHP by himself.
Took several hours to figure
 out simplest possible example execution. Main confusion: what example
file / content goes where,
 then how to access testfile, then defining and matching several Apache
file extensions (PHP,
 PHP3, PHP4).

Have two PHP books, your tutorial, your manual, and your examples.
Never found explicit directions
 on where PHP content could appear (so at first associated "Hello
World" attempts with browser side
 HTML.) (What I was trying was browser "open page" to access local PHP
testfile.)

Your tutorial does say "server web directory", but not clearly enough
(to a PHP novice) that this is the 
only place (for "Hello World".) (with access through a browser URL
reference)

The last few hours were spent learning a little about Apache's AddType
and LoadType, then getting
 testfile extensions to match Apache definitions (the <?php tags inside
a file are apparently not
 enough to get  Apache to trigger PHP.)

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