Apache not processing php in suse

If you have php installed on your suse os, but apache is not processing php page, then the following might help solve your problem:

1. edit /etc/sysconfig/apache2, on "APACHE_MODULES=" add "mod_php5"

2. Edit /etc/apache2/sysconfig.d/loadmodule.conf

Add this line for 32 bit OS
LoadModule php5_module /usr/lib/apache2/mod_php5.so

Add this line for 64 bit OS
LoadModule php5_module /usr/lib64/apache2/mod_php5.so


3. run these command
 /etc/init.d/apache2 stop
 /etc/init.d/apache2 start

Generate text file on the fly for user to download using php

Here's the code for generating a text file on the file for user to download. 

Make sure you don't have any output before this code,

otherwise it will be shown on the downloaded file also. 

<php? //Generate text file on the fly

   header("Content-type: text/plain");
   header("Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=test.txt");

   $str="test";

   echo $str;
   
 ?>

PHP timezone error

Problem:

date() [<a href='function.date'>function.date</a>]: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. Please use the date.timezone setting, the TZ environment variable or the date_default_timezone_set() function.

Solution:

On /etc/php.ini, set date.timezone = "America/New_York" or whatever timezone you need it to be

PHP Error on PEAR install

Problem:

PHP Fatal error:  Call to undefined method PEAR::raiseErro() in /usr/share/php/PEAR/REST.php on line 165

Solution:

mkdir -p /tmp/pear/cache