kormie

I'm new to the forums and the language and just wanted to say hi. PHP will really be the first language I've learned (not counting HTML and CSS) so pretty much everything is new to me. I'm teaching myself with a book and Kevin Skoglund's Lynda.com course, both of which seem to be pretty good resources but then again, I guess I'd have no idea if they weren't. Also, I was reading a post about how something like: mysqli_query($connect, $query) or die('Error Message'); is taught to beginners but using "die" is really not good form. Are there any other major pitfalls or bad habits that commonly come up for beginning PHPers that I should be aware of?

No, everything is on the same server. All I'm trying to do is execute the program.

I am very new to PHP and am not even sure what I'm asking is possible. I have just installed mediaWiki on my site and I'm trying to install some extensions. In order to install the Search functionality extension I have to run some scripts. Since it's not my server I wanted to use php to execute these Unix Executable Files that came with the package. Do I use system('file_name')? and browse to the site I have with this php within it? These are probably really lame questions, and I apologize design is more my forte and I'm just now learning the language. Thanks for any help!