PHP novice

[Arnab]

I need some good recommendations for php.

[quantum]

Hi Arnab,

First thing to do of course, is go to the mother site of PHP.
www.php.net

Download the help file documentation. You will need that through out your php career. If you are somewhat familiar with programming you will find that PHP is very easy to learn and use.

To write and test PHP code in your desktop you will need a web server, php engine, and CGI. If you wanna test a back-end database also, you will need MYSQL too. All of these are free. You can download them seperately from their respective web sites or you can get the PHP Triad. This is also free and includes all three you need to get up and testing PHP. Download this free from:

[http://sourceforge.net/projects/phptriad]

Install it on your computer. Write some php code on your notepad and save it in the c:\apache\htdocs\filename.php. Start apache and type [http://localhost/filename] in your browser. Voila...php is running.

A hello world php code may look like this:
<?php
echo "Hello World";
?>

Type this on your notepad and save in the c:\apache\htdocs\ as helloworld.php

Then start apache from start menu->programs and go to [http://localhost/helloworld.php]
from your browser.


A good book for offline reading on PHP is Beginning PHP4 by Wankyu Choi.

Amazon Site:
[http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1861003730/104-6342784-8695141?v=glance]
Author Site:
[http://www.wrox.com/books/0764543644.shtml]

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[Belal]

hello quantum,

It's my first try to php learning. I have followed the way you said. Wrote those three lines of php and saved as hello.php to your specifies location. Started apache.exe. And then wrote the address to get the output in Microsoft Internet Explorer. It gives me the result, successfully. But before it shows any output it gives one error and one warning messages. Please, explain what I am doing wrong.

error message:
The procedure entry point zend_list_find could not be located in the dynamic link library php4ts.dll

warning message:
Unknown(): Unable to load dynamic library 'c:\php4\php_gd.dll'- The specifies procedure could not be found.

Thanks
belal
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[quantum]

Sounds like you have messed up your php runtime server files. Reinstall the php, and everything will be alright.
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[hasnut]

http://www.tizag.com/phpT/
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