NYCPHP Meetup

[Rolan Yang]

Néstor wrote:
> People,
>  
> I have installed lamp & wamp several times in the pst and for the last 
> 24 hours I have
> been trying to install wamp and php using FF will ask me  " What 
> should I do with this file"
>  
> Annoying because I follow the steps that I remembered and it did not 
> worked.  Then I look
> at the installations instruction and followed them and still it would 
> not work., thenI tried
> installing wamp using the wampserver.exe and that failed.
>  ....
>  
> I used PHP 5.2.8 and APACHE 2.2.11 on windows XP
>  
> Is there something that I am not aware off when doing this type of 
> installation?
>  

Do you start your php code with <?php or just <?
If the latter is not rendering, update your php.ini to include

short_open_tag = On

I just installed xampp onto a usb thumbdrive the other day and found 
some of my lazy-programmed scripts were not running and that was the reason.

~Rolan