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New to PHP

Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 1:57 pm
by kapil1089theking
I want to work on windows with php can anybody suggest me and provide the links for the required softwares...

Re: New to PHP

Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 2:18 pm
by califdon
kapil1089theking wrote:I want to work on windows with php can anybody suggest me and provide the links for the required softwares...
You probably want to install one of the several "WAMP" packages for Windows. WAMP = Windows Apache Mysql PHP. You didn't mention MySQL database, but this is perhaps the main reason for using PHP, so you surely will want to learn it, too.

It is certainly possible to install Apache web server (Windows port), PHP and MySQL separately, but then you would need to configure each of them. Fortunately, several people have created a single package that installs and (pretty much) configures everything for you. Check out http://www.en.wampserver.com/.

Re: New to PHP

Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 9:49 pm
by JAB Creations
I use XAMPP for Windows which (for me) requires very little out-of-the-box configuration (my htdocs and cgi-bin paths have to be changed though that's all). All you have to do is go to the XAMPP folder once installed, apache folder, conf, and open httpd.conf, find 'htdocs' which exists TWICE and change the path to your already (or desired) path (C:/path/.. or D:/path/.. in example).

It doesn't get any quicker then that!