Hi Hughesa,
Please for future reference.. Try to stick to the forum topic: You are asking questions here about installations.
Anyway.. There is a number of tutorials on this site (Look uinder www.phpbuilder.org, surf to articles, if I remember correctly.
THis oneThis one deals with installation of PhP/Apache unde windows.
What you need for development of database driven website under windows: A webserver (Consider apache)
A database (Consider mysql)
a scripting interpreter (consider PhP)
J