The first half of chapter 2 of our Training from the Source textbook covers the setup and configuration of a php server environment.  These are not steps that we need to take for this class because we are using php environments that are already set up.  It is a good idea to review this information at least quickly so you can be aware of how php works on a webserver.

phpinfo()

At a minimum, you should do the exercise on pages 31-32 using phpinfo(). It is very important for web developers to know what version of PHP they are running, some features are not available in earlier versions of PHP.  The exercise takes less than a minute.

You can see that the student.santarosa.edu servers are running an earlier version than the textbook.     Let’s keep this in mind as we go through the book, we may encounter problems with this.  Review the entire page of information about our PHP server – we don’t know what alot of these settings are, but we may need to know where to find this information some time in the future, and we now know where to find it.

The second half of Chapter 2 – pages 47 – 57 are important for you to understand, and should be review from what we went over in class on Jan 20.