Thursday 14 November 2002

The simple thrills of an Apache/PHP/SQL novice I got a great thrill last night when I finally got my first bit of PHP coding to work as intended. I was working through a tutorial using BBEdit to produce my HTML and PHP and presumed I could use 'Preview With' on BBEdit's Markup menu like I do with my HTML files. I was becoming increasingly frustrated when my PHP wasn't working and all I was getting was either the raw code displayed or blanks in my HTML where PHP output should have been.       It took a very long time before I realised what was wrong: by using BBEdit's Preview facility I was getting a 'file' protocol showing in the browser's location bar rather than the 'http' which I needed. Once I changed this everything worked. When the penny dropped and the intended result was finally displayed I must admit that I literally cheered! As I say, simple thrills. More seriously, though, this one evening's work has been immensely educational. I am surprised at how reasonably straight-forward PHP is, and its so-neat in-and-out slotting with HTML is just amazing. I'm going to enjoy this, I can tell—though I'm sure there will be many further frustrations along the way when I come to adding in a touch of SQL too. Still, there are so many helpful sites out there that I should manage fine. 9:38:28 AM

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