Brain Explosion
For the last 2 days I’ve been trying to get the wonderful php (which is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML) to talk to MySQL (the world’s most popular open source database) via IIS (Microsoft Internet Information Services).
Now if reading that hurts your head then you really should try installing them individually on your PC then get them to communicate to each other. Each one seemed to work on their own but they just wouldn’t call each other. I was up till 3:00 last night posting desperate questions on a number of forums, none of which were answered. Thank the lord for Google and the 10 scraps of highly scribbled on paper in front of me. I must have changed just the right one of over 100 configuration settings to finally get it to work this evening.
So now I’m having a nice cold beer and listening to some lovely minimal tech house downloaded from Brique Rouge to relax.
Today’s link: Screenshots of all the sound effects used in the old Batman TV Series.
Welcome to the back end. I truly can’t tell you how many times this has happened to me. Satisfying when it is working, but still it was only one of those 100 changes so it can seem like a total waste of time… Nice to see it’s not only me!
Yeah, which is one of the problems when you’re looking online, there’s 20,000 posts with people with similar problems and no idea how to fix it. The posts that say they DID fix it then tell you they can’t remember the exact setting they changed for it to work!
One solution was to install EasyPHP which comes with the Apache server but I was determined to fight this one out. One thing I did learn was that Firefox is not set up to use the localhost unlike IE is. I fixed it by changing some settings using the about:config command in the address bar and changing some settings.
Nice to know it’s not only me also!