The installation of PHP with Apache (and often MySQL) is actually quite tricky for linux newbies like myself. There are good tutorials on Devshed.com Linuxnewbie.org and Webmonkey.com but I never seem to be able to successfully install the required components (maybe some installfest I will :( Also, I heard that PHP is installed by default on Suse 6.3 and 6.4 happily running with Apache and even MySQL, but I recently did a "complete install" of SuSe 6.4 and found nothing I wonder what the rest of the SLUGers think of PHP installation Good luck with that George, Regards, Matt >From: George Vieira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: RE: [SLUG] HTML -- Parsing values to a text box via the URL Addre >ss line >Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2000 06:45:27 +1000 > >I'm running Linux but I have no experience what so ever in PHP. I'm not >even >sure if PHP is enabled by default. I saw some things in >/etc/httpd/conf/srm.conf (i think) that had PHP NOT remarked but not sure >if >it handles it. > >I just wanted something simple to pull the data in, even if it's >javascript. >have a look at the page on http://hexidecimal.cls-tech.com and click the >sign up page. > >That's the culprit. > >-----Original Message----- >From: David Zverina [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2000 11:35 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Matt Allen >Subject: RE: [SLUG] HTML -- Parsing values to a text box via the URL >Address line > > >Actually it is pretty easy to do via Javascript. There's example in the >O'Reilly's Rhino book which breaks up the param=value&v2=p2... type >strings. >Of course if you're lazy like me and have control of the URL you can cheat >and simply pass a delimited string (in my case using "+"). In which case >use >the following Javascript fragment. > >sstr = self.location.search; >values = sstr.substr(1); >a = values.split("+"); >document.write("String 1 is "); >document.write(a[0]); > >etc ... > >However the Javascript option is only preferable when you cannot get your >hands onto PHP. E.g. when the client refuses to have php installed on their >IIS server. :-( > >Dave. >-- >David Zverina >Alt Key Pty. Ltd. >http://www.altkey.com >PO Box 3121, Parramatta, 2124, Australia > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Matt Allen > > Sent: Wednesday, 31 May 2000 17:12 > > Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > > Subject: Re: [SLUG] HTML -- Parsing values to a text box via the URL > > Address line > > > > > > George, > > > > You'll need some sort of ServerSide scripting to make this happen > > easily, you *might* be able to do it via javascipt too if you search > > hard. > > > > Have a look at PHP (www.php.net) > > > > Matta > > > > George Vieira wrote: > > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > Does anybody know how do you pass information to a HTML page to > > fill a form > > > eg. > > > In an email sent to you.. you might have: > > > > > > > > http://register.domain.com.au/signup.html?formName=George&formEmai > > l=georgev@ > > > citadelcomputer.com.au > > > > > > This doesn't work for me, and I'm not sure it's suppose to or > > if the syntax > > > is right? > > > > > > Any help? > > > > > > thanks, > > > George Vieira > > > Network Administrator > > > Citadel Computer Systems P/L > > > http://www.citadelcomputer.com.au > > > > > > -- > > > SLUG - Sydney Linux Users Group Mailing List - http://www.slug.org.au > > > To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > > > unsubscribe in the text > > > > -- > > Matt Allen Linux/PHP eCommerce > > Solutions > > Linux Worx Linux Networking > > www.linuxworx.com.au Consulting > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 0413 777 771 > > -- > > SLUG - Sydney Linux Users Group Mailing List - http://www.slug.org.au > > To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > > unsubscribe in the text > > > >-- >SLUG - Sydney Linux Users Group Mailing List - http://www.slug.org.au >To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with >unsubscribe in the text >-- >SLUG - Sydney Linux Users Group Mailing List - http://www.slug.org.au >To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with >unsubscribe in the text ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com -- SLUG - Sydney Linux Users Group Mailing List - http://www.slug.org.au To unsubscribe send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe in the text
