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Tammie
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Hello (anyone)

I'm a little embarassed to say that I'm just starting to get interested in php.
I want to be able to switch a couple of my sites using it, and will have to teach myself the basics....but before I do that I obviously need the installation...and this is where I'm getting a little stuck.

I work on a Windows ME platform (I know I know), and I do have php4 & mysql available through my hosting provider, but here is where I need the help. How can I install and use php (4?) on win me as an editor for the pages or is that possible? Do I need to have pws set up and if so is this available for the platform I'm using? I've tried finding out through Microsoft ....but as always there is never any help there.

If anyone has any info for me, I would be forever grateful...
:lol:
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Post by lc »

get yourself apache (server software) and php and install both on your puter. That way you can set a folder up as a server on your puter and you can test your scripts locally, without having to upload.
That's really the best way to go.

I found the tutorial on:
http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/01/ ... rogramming

and the one on:
http://www.thickbook.com/extra/php_apachephp4_win.phtml

quite helpfull. Btw I use WinME/apache/php4 myself and it works fine.
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fatal
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Post by fatal »

A good Win32 installation articial: http://www.evilwalrus.com/articles/read.php?aid=1
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Post by volka »

even compiling your own win32 apache/php isn't that hard - if you have MS DevStudio
I replaced memcpy with the amd-optimized version. It almost reduced the answertime by a quarter - and it's so important to have pages created in 0.0011 than 0.0014 seconds ;)
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Post by mikeq »

volka wrote:even compiling your own win32 apache/php isn't that hard - if you have MS DevStudio
I replaced memcpy with the amd-optimized version. It almost reduced the answertime by a quarter - and it's so important to have pages created in 0.0011 than 0.0014 seconds ;)
This statement even scared me lets hope Tammie is not put off. Tammie you don't need to compile anything, you can just download and install the parts (apache/php/mysql), as this would be development environment perhaps the response time is not so important :wink:
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Post by volka »

oops, sorryy to scare anybody. This was just kidding 8O
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Post by MattF »

I used foxserv for my local server, it works in windows ME and is the easiest thing to use ever, even me who is a bit of a newbie managed to change my document root so that my whole E: drive is the web server :D
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Post by Tammie »

What a response!

Thank you all very much.
I will be knee deep in php in no time (hopefully)

:wink:


Great forum guys.
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