"Chris Krasnichuk" <Kr*******@shaw.ca> wrote in message
news:Ck***********************@news3.calgary.shaw. ca...
Omg,
Can't anybody answer my question with detail?
I know people have told me to read the installation thingy but my php
bible gave more information then people here.
So if anyone can please give me detail instructions
I think you need to show people that you are trying. Have you actually tried
downloading PHP and reading the readme file? People are suggesting that you
do it because that is what the readme file is there for - it's written once
in a readme file so a newsgroup message doesn't have to be written
explaining it everytime someone wants to install. If you have tried
installing it and have read the readme, which part exactly is it you are
having trouble with? Did you install Apache? Can you see plain HTML websites
properly? Did PHP seem to install properly? Did running phpinfo() work?
Constantly asking the very general question "how do I get PHP to work?"
makes it sound as though you are too lazy to use a search engine or read the
readme yourself, and people don't tend to go out of their way to exaplain
things if someone is simply too lazy to do it themselves.
I will give you a general overview to get you started. If you have trouble,
come back and state what it was you tried, and what exactly isn't working.
The first step is to install a web server. This will let you see html pages
as if they were on the Internet (that is they have a URL like
http://something instead of C:\something). Apache is the obvious choice, it
is good and most importantly free.
Once that is working you can view web pages by typing "http://localhost/".
Now you need to install PHP so your scripts will work. This plugs into
Apache. I suggest instead of installing these separatly you use a package
like PHPDev. This is Apache, PHP and a few other things bundled together
into an easy to use file for Windows users. You just download it, extract
it, and you're pretty much done. You can get it from
www.firepages.com.au.
None of what I have written here is new. I think you have been very unfair
by suggesting no-one has tried to help you. The Apache readme provides all
of this information, but you have shown no indication that you bothered to
read it. The link
http://www.wowwebdesigns.com/power_g...trio_intro.php provided by
Tomislav goes right back to a basic level and explains everything really
well, but again you don't seem to have bothered reading it. WAMP and
PHPTriad also seem to do exaclty the same thing as PHPDev, but again you
don't seem to have bothered trying them.
It's incredibly rude to ignore what people have said and then blaming them
for not trying to help them. If you don't change your attitude nobody is
going to bother trying to help you (it's not like they get anything out of
it - remember they are doing you a favour). If you do genuinely try some of
the things above or in other posts, and have trouble we will be more than
glad to help you. If you ignore it and complain that everything hasn't been
nicely laid out on a platter for you then you can expect to be on everyone's
killfile in very quick order.
Gareth