ID:               13794
 Updated by:       php-bugs@[...].net
 Reported By:      daveaikm@[...].com
-Status:           Feedback
+Status:           No Feedback
 Bug Type:         Documentation problem
 Operating System: RH Linux 7.0 / Apache / Netscape
 PHP Version:      4.0.6
 New Comment:

No feedback was provided for this bug for over a month, so it is
being suspended automatically. If you are able to provide the
information that was originally requested, please do so and change
the status of the bug back to "Open".


Previous Comments:
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[2002-02-07 05:31:36] goba@[...].net

IMHO, the submitter is talking about
http://php.net/tut.php [which is IMHO soon
to be integrated to the manual].

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Goba

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[2002-02-06 12:26:25] alindeman@[...].net

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


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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
...

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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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