Can I install both PHP3 and PHP4 on same server?

Anon

I just got a question from someone that i hope a PHP guru could answer.

I have an NT/IIS/php/mysql server running just great but need to move up to
4.x to use your ADODB libraries..

if I run your installer, will it break my current php v3 installation or
install it to run parallel or ... ????

Thanks again.

Anon

What installer? There's an installer for PHP?

Oh wait, yer probably talking about that little reg entry file right?

Ok simple answer to the question, yes you can run both versions of php on the same server at the same time, all you have to do is just set up your server to reconize the different file types. The easiest way to do this is to name all php files by their respective versions, say filename.php3 for php3 files and filename.php4 for php4 files, and so on.

I could show you how to do this on Apache or PWS, but I'm a little low on experiece with IIS.

Anon

Thanks for the reply. I read to docs for PHP3 and PHP4.

Don't they use the same PHP.ini file? How do I have 2 PHP.ini files, one for PHP3 and another for PHP4?

-- John

Anon

Actualy php3 uses the file \"php3.ini\", I don\'t know why they dropped this standard for php4, but I guess it\'s for a good reason...

Anon

i have installed php3 and php4 on windows as,
placed php3.ini and php.ini in windows dir.

in php3.ini i heve given extensions to php3 folder.

in php.ini i heve given extensions to php4 folder.

in php3 folder i placed all the dlls of php3
+ php.exe of php3.

in php4 folder i placed all the dlls of php4
+ php.exe of php4.
rohit