Recipe 8.16 Verifying PHP Installation

Problem

You want to verify that you have PHP correctly installed and configured.

Solution

Put the following in your test PHP file:

<?php phpinfo(  ); ?>

Discussion

Place the above text in a file called something.php in a directory where you believe you have enabled PHP script execution. Accessing that file should give you a list of all configured PHP system variables. The first screen of the output should look something like Figure 8-2.

Figure 8-2. Sample phpinfo( ) output

See Also

• Recipe 8.15