PHP5 Installer for Windows

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redmonkey
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PHP5 Installer for Windows

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In a bid to cut down on the amount of 'I can't get PHP5 to work' type email coming into my inbox, I decided to put together a little auto installer as there does not appear to be one on offer on the downloads page at php.net for PHP5??.

Anyway, this installer will install PHP5 (in a directory of your choice) and configure base settings within php.ini which will be installed in the appropriate directory. If you currently have another version of PHP installed your php.ini file will be backed up.

The installer also offers you the ability to specify some basic config options (e.g. Enable/Disable Register Globals, Enable/Disable Magic Quotes etc...) along with enabling/disabling some common extensions during the install process.

The installer essentially provides a basic working PHP5 install with all the appropriate files automatically installed in the appropriate directories. The installer is nothing more than the .zip binary package wrapped in an install app (all files included in the .zip package will be available to you after instalation), the only addition is I have included the Zend Optimizer v2.5.3 module (optional install).

It does not (at present) auto detect and configure your web server for your new PHP install, however, for Apache it is a case of updating one line in your httpd.conf file.

For anyone here having problems with installing PHP5 you can try this PHP5 Windows Installer App (5.9Mb). Problems and/or feedback welcomed.
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