Running PHP on Personal laptop

cpd259

I am being forced by my company to learn as I go here. I am a mainframe programmer but they want me to expand my horizons. I love learning new things. Someone in another division created a labeling system on a server of ours using HTML/XML/Javascript and PHP. The server/scripts work as expected.

My problem is that I want to have PHP work on my laptop. I have copied the working scripts over to my laptop and everything works except for the PHP code. The reason I would like to have PHP to run on my laptop is so I can test the changes to these scripts before putting them on the server.
I did install the PHP software but maybe I didn't install the correct one. Is there a client version? Is there something else I need to do to maybe fake the software out to think that my laptop is a server? Any advice on what I can look for would be helpful. I do have IIS running.

Any and all help would be appreciated.

dougal85

There is no 'client' version, just one standard type of PHP.

Then you have different releases, the most common in PHP4 but PHP5 is the new one that's developing. I guess there might be some PHP3 around but I've not seen anything recently.

What server are you using on your local machine? Apache? ISS?

Houdini

Do your self a favor and scrap the IIS unless you must develop ASP (microsoft) but if not then get Apache as well as MySQL both of which are free. There is an installation program which will install Apache, MySQL and PHP as well as other software and it is called XAMPP and can be downloaded at this LINK or click the link in my signature. This is a large download but it includes everything you need to run PHP as well as perl and even a Mail server and an FTP server. It is a simple point and click install and you should accept the normal defaults unless you are used to actually running a webserver like Apache. It takes all the worry out of setting up a webserver (Apache).