Yes guys and girls it has finally happened. Only after being in the computer field for 25 years and able to comprehend and program anything I have finally found a system of programs with MySql and Apache with phpmyadmin that defies the normal laws of logic.
I have downloaded just last week the full version so I can work with the php websites I'm programming at work. To my surprise I am not able to understand what I do from here. All the faq's and help files and syntax files tell me to do things but not where. Everything appears to have loaded up properly...but when I try to use the setup file for phpmyadmin all I get is the code in my IE browser. I do not have a web of DNS just my stand alone on my desktop running XP. I was able to create the database after not using the syntax in the php files telling me how it should be written from the command line but no tables etc...
So how to I find my server? How do I read php code in IE that's from my files? How do I keep my sanity till the wizard that sets this up is a full blown setup? Don't take this personally, but when my logic is freaked out...well..... Trying not to be too smart...elickly but if we are going to bring this technology to the front then we will have to make the help files way more straight forward and the setup waay easier, because most of the world has work to do that doesn't include hours and hours of setup work. I've setup and migrated 30 SQL servers in less time so I guess we have work to do...