I currently have PHP, MySQL, and Apache on my Windows 98 system which was installed by the NuSphere application. (so PHP isn't the CGI version)
Now I'd like to learn how to rebuild PHP to include functions that weren't included in the original installation, but most importantly I want to be able to install a new version of PHP on my computer as soon as they come out (it's for development only, so I don't mind the odd bug showing itself).
But after reading the PHP manual, looking through the text files in the PHP source code distribution, and looking through the more or less useless tutorials I've found so far, I'm as clueless as to what I should be doing as when I started.
What I want to do, put simply, is use the --enable-sockets directive as stated in the manual (whatever that means) so that I can play with the new socket functions.
If I can do that I'm hoping I can figure out all the rest on my own, such as upgrading PHP to a new version and using other directives.
So what should I do to learn how to do that?
