PHP newbie..

[imation]

do you have to CHMOD PHP or is that only for CGI? and, does PHP have to be uploaded in the cgi-bin or can it be anywhere? this question is in relation to installing vbulletin.

thanks

[kunal]

No CModing required :) and can be run from anywhere depending on your host has configured the server. In most cases you can run it from anywhere.

[imation]

awesome....thanks for the quick response kunal...appreciate it

[megacool]

Originally posted by imation
do you have to CHMOD PHP or is that only for CGI? and, does PHP have to be uploaded in the cgi-bin or can it be anywhere? this question is in relation to installing vbulletin.

thanks

PHP is great.. u dont need to set permission for the PHP files them selves.. how ever.. if the script reads/writes from a file then u must chmod that particular file(s) and PHP is lot more robust. So thats why i don't like Perl anymore..lol! but im doing 2 projects rightnow one with perl other with php.. wanna taste both of them ;)

[Daniel Crabtree]

PHP is also so simple to learn. I mean after 2 hours of reading and playing around, I am now capable of building a MySQL / PHP databased site and just plain simple PHP pages.

Although I haven't attempted to learn Perl, PHP seems to do everything I would ever need to, and is much more simple. Though I do have quite alot of experience with other programming languages. C++, Java, Javascript, HTML, Basic etc.

Yes you don't need to CHMod either, but you do need to be sure to protect your database password etc, when doing database connectivity. I would guess that megacool is correct in saying you need to php files that read/write. But usually you would be doing that to a database.

One more thing, usually you can make any directory into a cgi-bin. Unless your host restricts that.