Hi everybody, I am Zaki from Malaysia. I just bought your book and I stack with chapter 1. I’m using these below for windows binary:

apache_2.0.50-win32-x86-no_ssl
mysql-4.0.21-win
php-4.3.3-Win32

I’m install it on D: drive with windows 2000 pro sp3

and your recommendation is
Apache: Version 2.0.47
MySQL: Version 4.0.15a
PHP: Version 4.3.3

I successfully install Apache and PHP. I can run phpinfo(); , but not

<?php
echo “If this works we <i>really</i> did it!”;
?>

it seem not run very well for any coding PHP, I’ll get an error:

Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting ',' or ';' in D:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache2\myweb\phptest.php on line 7

And this error for Mysql

D:\mysql\bin>cd
D:\>NET START MySql
The MySql service is starting.
The MySql service could not be starte

A system error has occurred.

System error 1067 has occurred.

The process terminated unexpectedly.

I think you did a copy and paste of the code from the book electronic version, which can give you problems. Look really carefull at the kind of quotes this statement is using:
Change it to this and it should work(Notice that I am using different quotes).
 With regard to your mysql problem, I had the same problem and this is what I did to solve it. Run winmysqladmin.exe which should be inside the bin directory and this will create a file that is needed to the mysql service deamon to start.

Let me know if that solved your problems.


Christian

Hi Christian,
I did copy and paste from the electronic version, and now it work. But when i run another more advance code from the book, the problem still same ,

Now I can use my MySql without problemo.

Thank You.

When you copy a paste sometimes you get this strange quotes. You can either copy and paste the code from the cd that comes with the book which has the code examples on the book(You can also download this code at http://www.wrox.com/WileyCDA/WroxTit...load_code.html) or you can make sure to replace the strange quotes with the usual ones(Use Find and replace for that)

Hope that helps.

Christian