Installing and Configuring PHP

Installing and Configuring PHP

Overview: Here we will be showing you how to Install PHP / IIS web-server, and how to configure your web server to work with PHP

I had downloaded the Windows installer ver as I wanted to install PHP on my Windows XP (Prof) runing IIS and it works great! Bascially the Windwos installer installs the CGI version of PHP for IIS, PWS, and Xitami and configures the web server.

If you are using Linux/Unix then you might need to download the PHP Source code and then compile it just check your web-server as most of the versions of linux/unix already have PHP installed or it can be installed with the installer CD that comes with your Operating System.

Most of you must be having windows operating system, so select the appropraite build. The beauty of PHP is that you can build your site using PHP on windows and when the time comes for deployment you can install and run the same code on linux/Unix Servers.

Okay you can write PHP code in any text editor even notepad would do the job, but I personally like PHPEdit. Its one of the best PHP Editors that I have worked with for Windows and its free, it has syntax completion and lots of goodies that makes your working with PHP a breeze.

Easy Installation

If you want up-to-date Apache, Mysql, and PHP all configured for you, then I have the place for you. Most programmers like to do it themselves, but there is many problems with that. When you do apache by itself you have to run that stupid console as an open window unless your smart enough to fix it to run in back ground.

With Wamp5 it does it all for you automaticaly. Really easy to use and you can still edit your php.ini and your httpd.conf files after the easy wizard installs and configures them for you. No more hassle with trying to get it all working together.

URL:
http://www.wampserver.com (french version)

http://www.wampserver.com/en/index.php (english version)

This should prevent from all the noobies asking questions because they are to lazy to do it themselves.

I am sorry to say but if i am not wrong there is something missing inyour post as you were going to give some code !

I write PHP code in my HTML editors. I use two - HomeSite (I bought it when it was still AllAire, but now it's Macromedia), and Alleycode (which is free).