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Problems installing PHP 5.3

Posted: Wed Aug 05, 2009 6:10 pm
by gilgamush
Hi there,
I'm running xampp v1.7.1 on Windows XP, and want to update to PHP 5.3 so I can use late static binding.

I've downloaded PHP 5.3 and unzipped the files. I then copied them all into my xampp PHP directory "C:\xampp\php". However, this has not updated my installation - when I run a php script with phpinfo() in it, I am told that I still have 5.2.9 installed.

Very keen to get this working and cannot find any clear instructions online as to the update process.
I'd be really grateful if anyone could let me know what I'm doing wrong.

Thanks

Re: Problems installing PHP 5.3

Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2009 9:08 am
by jackpf
Have you restarted apache?

Re: Problems installing PHP 5.3

Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2009 2:10 pm
by gilgamush
Hi Jack - thanks for the reply. I have restarted Apache and still no joy. Weird one! Have you installed 5.3? Did you just copy in the files?

Re: Problems installing PHP 5.3

Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2009 3:02 pm
by jackpf
Oh. That's all I had :P

I've never had any experience with WAMP, I just install everything seperately.

I'm afraid I don't really know....sorry.

Re: Problems installing PHP 5.3

Posted: Mon Aug 24, 2009 4:26 pm
by Darhazer
As far as I remember, XAMPP comes with both PHP 4 and 5, so it should have 2 folders with PHP
Check if you copied PHP 5.3 in the correct location :)

P.S. XAMPP 1.7.2 have build-in PHP 5.3