Yahoo and php ?

[AdmiralAK]

Does yahoo support php ?
I want to learn it and yahoo will be (as always has been) my testing ground.

any ideas as to what server side stuff yahoo supports ?


Admiral

[themacko]

you mean, you want to test php on your yahoo/geocities account?

[3mors]

nah, search in yahoo about free php hosting and you'll find some good sites.

But if you wanna learn, you'd better set up an apache server & php on your mac. It's very easy.

[bighairydog]

Originally posted by 3mors
But if you wanna learn, you'd better set up an apache server & php on your mac. It's very easy.

To activate php, you could manually edit the apahce configuration and library files, but these neat trickx do it for you:

Go to the terminal

cd /etc/httpd
sudo apxs -e -a -n php4 libexec/httpd/libphp4.so
sudo perl -p -i.bak -e 's%#(AddType \S+-php[ -])%$1%i' httpd.conf

Now any .php files in your webserver directory will be dealt with accordingly.
I have my apache set up to parse html files as php - useful if you have an html editor that doesn't like non html extensions like Golive.

In the terminal:
sudo pico /etc/httpd/httpd.conf

in the pico text editor controll-W to search, and search for "AddType"
Edit the line with .html in it, if there is one (if not just add this) so it looks like:

AddType application/x-httpd-php .html

Exit, saving.

type sudo apachectl graceful

to restart the webserver.

Bernie :o)

(Good this pooch, AdmiralAK? ;o) lol

[bighairydog]

Oh yeah, and it's a good idea to have MySQL too, just for the hell of it. http://www.entropy.ch/software/macosx/mysql/ is an invaluble source of binaries for tings like that.

Bernie :o)

[AdmiralAK]

well this was oging to be my plan

1) Buy PHP book
2) Buy a web dev CD from openosx.org with all the dev stuff I would ever need
3) Make/play with php pages
4) upload to geocities.

I am on dial up so I cannot
1) Tie up my phone line serving content
2) dont have bandwidth for my real audio streaming.

My Machine at work is a beige G3, no OS X on it. My boss doesnt want me to put os x on it so I cannot use that machine as a web server. Furthermore what happens to my server if I am not there and it goes down (i.e. I go on vacation ) ...

I will take a look at free php hosting if yahoo cant do it


Admiral

[themacko]

yahoo/geocities definately can't do it. the only free php/mysql hosting I know of is www.f2s.com but they're overbooked and I don't think accepting anymore free accounts. You might, however, be able to find just a free php server w/o mysql. i dunno, good luck though

[bighairydog]

  I use http://easily.co.uk/ . It's not free (£35 GBP per year) but it's very cheap, and supports everything (PHP, ASP, Perl, CGI, MySQL).
  I'll bet that any free php host will cut down the features, e.g. won't let you use the excellent mail() function to send emails, so you won’t be able to develop properly anyway.

Bernie :o)