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concrete5 Beginner's Guide

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concrete5 Beginner's Guide

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (19 chapters)
concrete5
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Time for action – getting PHP information


Carry out the following steps:

  1. Create a file named info.php in this directory: c:\xampplite\htdocs.

  2. Enter the following lines:

    <?php
    phpinfo();
    ?>
  3. Open http://localhost/info.php in your web browser.

What just happened?

The PHP information page contains everything about your PHP configuration. In case you haven't seen this page before, make sure you get at least a little bit familiar with it as a lot of people will ask for it when you ask questions in the concrete5 community.

If an extension like APC is enabled, you can find it somewhere in the information page. XAMPP doesn't come with a real cache extension like APC; the only backends we can use are the file system and a SQLite database.

Note

When you're looking to get support from a community such as concrete5.org, people will often ask you about information you can find in this information page as well. It does reveal lots of information about your configuration, but it helps a lot if you can attach...