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From: Tim Streater <timstreater@waitrose.com>
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Subject: Re: How stupid ARE people?
Date: Tue, 03 May 2011 16:58:45 +0100
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In article <ipp3or$fj0$1@dont-email.me>,
 "Twayne" <nobody@devnull.spamcop.net> wrote:

> In news:timstreater-732456.17181402052011@news.individual.net,
> Tim Streater <timstreater@waitrose.com> typed:
> > In article <ipml3r$7bg$1@dont-email.me>,
> > "Twayne" <nobody@devnull.spamcop.net> wrote:

> > Why would PHP not be available on my own machine. I run
> > PHP scripts all the time.
> 
> I can't really say since you gave no information at all. A lot of 'nix 
> bundles might include it but Windows for instance does not. And unless you 
> have installed a server installed locally on your machine, PHP scripts are 
> not running on your machine. All you'll get when it runs is a page showing 
> the PHP script, but no PHP results. Once you're into production mode, then 
> the PHP is running on whatever server you are using for your production 
> site/s.
>    So you have actually not said anything but a few words with nothing to 
> describe what you're doing. That of course if of absolutely no use to 
> newbies and the inexperienced users looking to get into PHP programming.

OK, I'll add a few words to the second sentence, and a third sentence:

I run PHP scripts from the command prompt all the time. I can do this 
whether or apache happens to be running at that moment (in fact it 
usually is since an instance of apache is a component of my email 
client, but the command line scripts, of course, don't care about that).

-- 
Tim

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