Also: the local PHPAdmin page URL is:

http://localhost/MAMP/?language=English

This DOES open the PHPAdmin when MySQL actually starts the way it's supposed to. As you can see, it's looking locally for files, and it finds them just fine. Except that I can't see why it isn't recognizing a .PHP file to pick up on.

OK, when I RESTART my iBook and load MAMP before anything else, I can start phpMyAdmin with a URL like

http://localhost:8888/MAMP/frame.php? src=%2FphpMyAdmin%2F%3Flang%3Den-iso-8859-1 &language=English

The normal Start page is

http://localhost:8888/MAMP/?language=English

All of this might as well be French to me. There's a reason that I'm a developer and not an admin.

What happens when you go to [link] ? I mean, assuming you have a file called whatever.php with code in.

Incidentally, when I try and load my example PHP file, it starts out with

here"; echo "

"; echo "

"; //print list of everyone in users table. $result = >mysql_query("SELECT * from users"); while($row=mysql_fetch_array($result)){ //print_r($row); echo ""; echo $row["fname"] . " " . $row["lname"] . "

"; echo ""; } ?>

...as the header. It's just not loading it. I can open the MAMP widget and see that Apache has a green light, as well as MySQL -- there's no indicator for PHP nor does there seem to be intended to be.

ita --

I get

Not Found

The requested URL /whatever.php was not found on this server.

Apache/2.0.59 (Unix) PHP/5.2.1 DAV/2 mod_ssl/2.0.59 OpenSSL/0.9.7l Server at 127.0.0.1 Port 8888

Through the MAMP preferences, I can tell you that the Apache port is definitely 8888.

What's the name and location of your example file?

Daniel, thank you. I looked it up and got so confused I turned to cursing and ice cream. The driver installed and it seems to be okay, though I've yet to actually try scanning anything.

omnis, it sounds like a great idea to me. The only reason not to do it is because it'll cost money to put it in place. You'd have to give them some convincing numbers to show that it would lower their costs over time (not a long time, either) enough to be worth it. If this sort of thing already exists somewhere and is profitable - saves more money than it costs - that'll help your case a lot.

Daniel, thank you. I looked it up and got so confused I turned to cursing and ice cream. The driver installed and it seems to be okay, though I've yet to actually try scanning anything.

t tips hat

The example file is where the extremely sketchy MAMP documentation insists it should go: /Applications/MAMP/htdocs/listing6-1.php

The error reads:

Not Found

The requested URL /MAMP/htdocs/listing6-1.php was not found on this server.

Apache/2.0.59 (Unix) PHP/5.2.1 DAV/2 mod_ssl/2.0.59 OpenSSL/0.9.7l Server at 127.0.0.1 Port 8888

The URL is

http://127.0.0.1:8888/MAMP/htdocs/listing6-1.php

As I read the above, it looks like PHP is indeed started, from the error message, and filepath is resolving into something that should work.

Except it doesn't. :: tears hair a little more ::