Re: database (now "MySQL/PHP")

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Author: Eric Katherman
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To: plug-discuss
Subject: Re: database (now "MySQL/PHP")
php3 is old and much less secure then 4. I would recommend switching to
the latest version 4.3.6. Not only is it faster and more secure, it has
more features.

On Wed, 2004-04-14 at 00:05, Michael Havens wrote:
> I faithfully (as instucted by my tutorial) added to /etc/apache/httpd.conf the
> line 'AddType application/x-httpd-php3 .php3'. Since it has been said that
> php3 is not used much could someone tell me what the line should say?
>
> On Monday 12 April 2004 20:16, Patrick Fleming wrote:
> > This must be on a server running apache/(or whatever web server you want)
> > php3 is not used too much any more. Nowadays most scripts are just php.
> > And the server must be configured to interpret scripts with the .php
> > extension.
> > And depending upon the server you could probably get away with just the
> > short tags like <? and ?>
> >
> > Michael Havens wrote:
> > > You know, as I was investigatin the web on this I found that PHP and
> > > MySQL supposedly do a magnificent jobwith data driven websites and I
> > > found what I hope is a good tutorial on this. I thoutght I might have to
> > > Download these programs until I investigated /etc and saw they were both
> > > there. I put a script from the tutorial in there (see 1 below) but when I
> > > tried to open the file that it was saved as I got a blank screen. Why is
> > > this?
> > >
> > > Then again, it says, "Now call up the URL, for instance, http://myserver/
> > > test.php3." but it was just saved as a file. Do I need to save this on a
> > > server or something?
> > >
> > > 1-
> > > <html>
> > > <body>
> > > <?php
> > > $myvar = "Hello World";
> > > echo $myvar;
> > > ?>
> > > </body>
> > > </html>
> >
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