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The blank page is because your PHP 5 can't load your php_mysql extension to connect to your MySQL 4 database. Try to see if in your php.ini if those lines are uncommented:

extension=php_mysql.dll
extension=php_mysqli.dll

reboot the PC.

make yourself a test.php page and put in it:
<? phpinfo ...

AppServ is an open source project wich install everything in one easy step.
The point is that you need to configure some things to make PHP 5 being compatible with PHP 4.

In your php.ini; find those lines.

; Enable compatibility mode with Zend Engine 1 (PHP 4.x)
zend.ze1_compatibility_mode = Off ...

The software code use features from PHP 4. I mean phpbb 2.2 have been developped to support PHP 4 at the base.
All features from PHP 4 are supposed to be supported in PHP 5 as far as I know...
I'm actually running phpbb CVS snapshots with php 5.02 installed and it works.

test 1-2 test

Oh yeah I see. I removed the fonction in one the 2 php files and now it works.
8)
Thanx Viperal2

I want to say that I whas wrong. With PHP5 under Windows 2003 when you go to the Administration Control Panel I whas not able to see the left panel where the options of administrations are. It whas showing only a "row2" grey panel.

By the way I always asked myself what Zend Performance Suite whas for?
I installed it one time and I still ask myself what it can do more.

.NET is free like PHP it's only Visual Studio.NET who cost something.
You don't need Visual Studio.NEt to code in .NET, all you need is the framework .NET installed on your computer, or Mono if you are under Linux.
After that, for coding you need a webtool to start coding and microsoft are giving ...

Yeah same here I'm running the CVS version on my WIndows 2003 box with PHP 5 installed and the only bug I got is in the installation.
I get "unable to fetch array" errors but it does'nt seems to cause the installation to fail.

I agree that PHP is way better than ASP 3.0 in the interpreted language family. But if you want to look further: under Linux you can't code .NET websites.
I saw that they where building something for linux but it's still in development.

I'm actually building a web portal in .NET with MySQL or SQL ...