PHP4 and PHP5 installations?

[VestanPance]

Hello,

I am currently learning PHP and MySQL with a book. This is a great book but I soon realised that my host uses PHP4 and the book is written for PHP5 so the scripts I am wanting to creat won't work for production. Is it possible to run PHP4 and PHP5 at the same time on my home system so I can develope for PHP4 but keep learning PHP5? I am running a windows system with Apache2 and MySQL 4.1.

Thanks.

[devinemke]

unless you are doing alot of OOP, which i doubt if you are just starting to learn, then i'd say there are porbably very few if any compatibilty issues between the code you've written running on PHP4. you can always do a manual install (the zip package, not the installer) of both into separate folders and toggle your webserver to parse one or the other for testing.

[VestanPance]

devinemke wrote:

unless you are doing alot of OOP, which i doubt if you are just starting to learn, then i'd say there are porbably very few if any compatibilty issues between the code you've written running on PHP4. you can always do a manual install (the zip package, not the installer) of both into separate folders and toggle your webserver to parse one or the other for testing.

Thanks for the reply.

So you are saying that the code from the book (for PHP5) should work OK on the host running PHP4?

And by "toggling the server" do you mean in Apache's Http.conf file, comment out the version I am not using?:

#LoadModule php4_module c:/php4/php4apache.dll
#LoadModule php5_module c:/php5/php5apache.dll

Thanks again. SP.