Dear Mauricio,

Usually the default MySQL root password is blank (null). Its been a while since I perfromed a Windows install I will have to check on this.

Sam Bowen, MD

I have been working on developing a recipe for installing OpenEMR 2.8.1 + XAMPP 1.4.16 on Windows XP Pro. I appear to have overcome the last of the installation issues, primarily due to inherent XAMPP 1.4.16 problems (virus payload, fouled-up paths in conf files, etc.).

At any rate, OpenEMR seems to be operating just fine for the most part, except for when I click on either "billing" or "reports" on the main page, in which case I get the following error (identical error for both billing and reports):

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare sqlconnect() (previously declared in c:\xampp\htdocs\openemr\library\sql.inc:24) in C:\xampp\htdocs\openemr\library\sql.inc on line 24

Edited to add:

I'm getting a different error when I try to add a new patient. I guess my install is worse than I thought. Here's the error:

Fatal error: Cannot redeclare strterm() (previously declared in C:\xampp\htdocs\openemr\interface\globals.php:165) in c:\xampp\htdocs\openemr\interface\globals.php on line 165

Never mind. I figured it out.