CMS or PHP/MySQL?

Re: CMS or PHP/MySQL?

ulfr — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 16:20:03 -500

Thanks Walter, great clarifying!

What would one do without FreewayTalk? Digging an whole in the ground or something.

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Re: CMS or PHP/MySQL?

waltd — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 15:23:11 -500

When MAMP is running, it causes an instance of Apache + PHP to “listen” at port 8888 for any requests that get sent to it. When you type that URL into your browser, your browser sends a request to the server named ‘localhost’, which is a fancy name for your own computer, at that TCP/IP port. Because MAMP’s server is listening for requests on that port, it responds to that request with whatever specific resource was requested.

In simpler terms, you are temporarily running an entire Web server on your local computer, and interacting with it as if it was www.apple.com or similar.

Walter

On Aug 28, 2008, at 9:21 AM, ulfr wrote:

Actually I had the folder right, htdocs but not Localhost:8888/, consequenly I like to put another novice question:

How does Localhost:8888 work, besides linking to htdocs, it only works when MAMP is running?

Thanks

Ulf

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Re: CMS or PHP/MySQL?

ulfr — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:21:17 -500

Actually I had the folder right, htdocs but not Localhost:8888/, consequenly I like to put another novice question:

How does Localhost:8888 work, besides linking to htdocs, it only works when MAMP is running?

Thanks

Ulf

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Re: CMS or PHP/MySQL?

ulfr — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 20:45:59 -500

yes , wow finally :) I wont be able to sleep tonight, thank you, David, thank you. I have been struggeling with this for three days.

Now I will go on with MySql. MAMP seems to be very user friedly, once you get it running.

Ulf

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Re: CMS or PHP/MySQL?

David Owen — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:30:58 -500

Are you viewing MAMP from the right location?

Publish your Freeway site files into the htdocs folder (which is inside the MAMP application folder), maybe create a folder for each site you produce.

Then view in any browser using the MAMP URL http://localhost:8888/

(e.g, open the MAMP start page, and remove “MAMP/?language=English”)

David

On 27 Aug 2008, at 15:01, ulfr wrote:

I have MAMP running complete nice. OK with the infophp(), — but when I try a ordinary .php page in the browser it is not recognized. Firefox ask if it should be saved and Safari displays the code. Isn’t that funny??

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Re: CMS or PHP/MySQL?

ulfr — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 14:01:50 -500

I have read this thread and finally found the right question to ask.

Walter, you said the PHP interpreter is not getting invoked.

How do I do that?

I have MAMP running complete nice. OK with the infophp(), — but when I try a ordinary .php page in the browser it is not recognized. Firefox ask if it should be saved and Safari displays the code. Isn’t that funny??

I have changed the httpd.conf file uncommenting LoadModule php4_module libexec/httpd/libphp4.so and AddModule mod_php4.

I also managed to get php pages running by putting them in the folder Applications/MAMP/bin/mamp/ but only direct there, not in folders. Is that the only way? I would like to have all my sites in web pages folder as the OSX standard is.

Sorry for putting such a simple question, but

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Re: CMS or PHP/MySQL?

waltd — Wed, 07 May 2008 12:34:50 -500

Thank you for the kind words!

Walter

On May 7, 2008, at 3:48 AM, Brisprad wrote:

Thanks again for all your help. You have been incredibly patient and nice to work with. BTW, I looked at your own site. Nice work-on your own and on your client’s.

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Re: CMS or PHP/MySQL?

waltd — Wed, 07 May 2008 12:34:33 -500

That’s the very point of PHP — the code part is executed on the server, and its output is served along with the static HTML back to the browser. None of your code ever leaks out to the visitor (unless you make a grisly mistake, like leaving off the <?php ?> delimiters).

Note that if you preview PHP locally using Freeway’s “Preview in Browser” function, you will see the code; but that’s because the browser is simply opening the file as a text file. The PHP interpreter is not getting invoked.

Walter

On May 7, 2008, at 3:48 AM, Brisprad wrote:

One last question: I noticed when I look at the source code of the Axiom site (when the page is displayed in the browser), it is all html. Am I correct in thinking that the PHP code is executed first and then the page created is HTML that used PHP to create the code?

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Re: CMS or PHP/MySQL?

waltd — Wed, 07 May 2008 12:31:44 -500

The line numbers are never made a part of the resulting file. They appear on your screen only. If you want to confirm this, please try the following (in your /etc/apache2/ folder)

pico -w httpd.conf

Do this before and after saving the file with line numbers on.

Walter

On May 6, 2008, at 5:56 PM, Brisprad wrote:

something odd-I was using TextWrangler and had turned on line numbers and saved it with numbers turned on. I feel stupid!

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Re: CMS or PHP/MySQL?

Brisprad — Wed, 07 May 2008 07:48:51 -500

This could all be a storm in a teakettle — we’re running in circles trying to “fix” PHP, when the page has a syntax error or something…

Oh cool! I tried another Freeway tutorial. It’s one by Mike Brackenridge just called mysql_dynamic. It included a mysql dump file. I got it to work! Obviously there’s a syntax error on my other file. I’ll have to fully look at it and absorb it when I’m not so tired!

One last question: I noticed when I look at the source code of the Axiom site (when the page is displayed in the browser), it is all html. Am I correct in thinking that the PHP code is executed first and then the page created is HTML that used PHP to create the code?

Thanks again for all your help. You have been incredibly patient and nice to work with. BTW, I looked at your own site. Nice work-on your own and on your client’s.

Thanks again!

Brian

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CMS or PHP/MySQL?

Brisprad — Thu, 01 May 2008 20:17:31 -500

Hi,

Back in September or so I posted about help with PHP/MySQL and Freeway integration and got great information. However, I still haven’t quite mastered it yet. Recently, I read some of the posts about using CMS and was wondering if that would work for my situation. (I tried searching for those old posts but couldn’t find them!)

Here’s my situation: I’ve made a general site for a personal trainer. He would like to allow people to log in and make a meal plan for themselves on like a daily basis. He would then like to be able to view what people entered. He would eventually like to make it so he can sell his fitness programs online a la Jillian of “Biggest Loser” fame. He offers about 3 different programs. I know FileMaker at maybe an intermediate level so creating a DB and making all the relationships is pretty straight forward to me. However, learning how to communicate with a DB via PHP and Freeway is not working for me yet. Is using CMS a way that could help make things a little easier? My gut says no because I haven’t seen anything where a user then can see content (in this case what is available in their plan) and enter it. I’ve looked up a little about WebYep and Joomla.

BTW, my biggest problem with PHP/MySQL and Freeway is that I haven’t been able to successfully make a site read correctly. I’ve followed the tutorial that uses Axiom Widgets as an example but my sales.php page (where the products should show up) end up showing just as the code. I’m been doing it mostly on my computer. I installed MAMP to give me PHP and MySQL. I’ve tried putting the files in either the Sites folder of my Home folder or the htdocs folder MAMP’s FAQ page directs you to do. As far as the mechanics of the tutorial (using a “page” as an .inc file, using the php make markup action to make the page all php code, et), I do understand it.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. I feel lost in so many ways.

Thank you!

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