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[PHP3] The Basics: Getting Started with Scripts From: Richard L. Spangenberg (rls <email protected>)
Date: 07/30/98

Just starting out and have some very dumb questions:

I have installed PHP CGI into by cgi-bin/php directory and I have installed
mysql and created a database and some table structures. Now it's time to
start scripting, I think. I am new to this.

1. If I understand correctly, I can put PHP code into any html file with the
<script language = "php" /script> tags and that the html file can be in any
directory.

2. Do I have to rename the extension to PHP3 with the CGI version. I do not
think so since it is not going through the server.

3. It isn't clear in the doc on how to interface the script with the
cgi-bin/php files? What is being called and how? I suppose the html
resident php code provides the script and I need to reference an interpreter
somehow. I've seen no examples of this so I am somewhat lost.

4. I've notice the pconnect for MYSQL and plan to use it for persistance
connections even though the CGI version will not support it. I'd like to
use this hoping I can switch over to the Apache module version sometime in
the future. Will it function correctly closing the persistant mode with
each request, or will it blow up?

There will be more later. Hopefully, not too much. Please keep any answers
simple and clear for poor old dumb me to understand. Thanks...

Rick
rls <email protected> 

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