Martin Dougiamas

I've emailed them to you. Thanks!

Another advantage of ADOdb (which I chose nearly two years ago before PEAR was viable) is that it now supports creating/altering tables (I want to get rid of all those database-specific .sql schema files in Moodle 1.1).

I don't think these errors are anything to do with cron or Moodle ... "named" is the name daemon ... ie the DNS server on that machine.

Perhaps they have some unusual checking in place ... have you tried referring to your server (in the cron command) using the IP number instead of the DNS name?

Can someone who has recently done this (and I'm sure there are many subscribed here!) please post a reliable, easy-to-follow, step-by-step description of how to install Apache, MySQL and PHP on a Windows machine (XP, NT or W2K)?

I'd love to include this in the documentation to help give non-technical (and technical!) people a better chance of setting up Moodle on their own computers.

I had a quick attempt using FoxServ but ran into some trouble with MySQL, and I haven't got time to chase up the problem:

http://moodle.org/wiki/index.php/StepByStepInstallMoodleOnWindows

Feel free to edit or add to that Wiki page, or simply reply to this message and include it in your post to this discussion. You can use any WAMP package you feel is best (that is, results in the fewest number of steps!).

http://www.hotscripts.com/PHP/Software_and_Servers/Installation_Kits/

Yes, that does look fine. What's more that exact content displays fine for me when included in an auto-format message, such as this one, for example (note the smileys are being pulled from your site, too):

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Made with Moodle auto-format

working with

and again

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Very strange ... Make sure you have the very latest lib/weblib.php. Try a completely fresh CVS or latest-nightly installation.