PHP 5 and Windows XP

slypig

I have downloaded the binary zip file onto my desktop and am attempting to install it. I have created a folder in my Program Files called PHP into which I want to extract the files. From this point on I appear to be stuck as the files do not appear to want to extract to c:\Program Files\PHP. Can anyone help me?

thorpe

if your having problems extracting them to that specific folder (cant see why you would), just extract them anywhere then copy them there.

joviyach

I tried in vain to get Apache/MySQL/PHP to work on my Win XP platform using only the file downloaded from each website respectively. Finally, I got tired of fighting with it, and downloaded a package that installs all the necessary components with their most common configurations.

There are several of these available for free. I am using e-novative WAMP right now, but also have used "The Saint WAMP" as well.

The best case is to use Linux to begin with I imagine, but I have too many other apps that I use that are dependent on the MoCD unfortunately.

laserlight

I tried in vain to get Apache/MySQL/PHP to work on my Win XP platform using only the file downloaded from each website respectively.

I dont know why people always seem to have problems with this. I have both PHP4 and PHP5 installed with Apache2 and MySQL4.0 on MS Windows XP.

All you need to do is to download the installer for Apache and run it. Then download the installer for MySQL and run it. Then download the zip files for PHP and follow the PHP Manual instructions for Installation on Windows systems, in particular Apache 2.0.x on Microsoft Windows.

After that just a little tweaking of php.ini for the extensions you want and everything should be okay.