Building Chinese Web Sites using PHP

∟PHP Installation on Windows Systems

This chapter provides notes and tutorials on installing PHP on Windows systems. Topics include downloading and installing PHP 5.2.2; running PHP scripts in Command Line Interface (CLI) and Common Gateway Interface (CGI).

Download and Install PHP 5.2.2 on Windows

Running PHP Scripts

Table of Contents

 About This Book

►PHP Installation on Windows Systems

 Integrating PHP with Apache Web Server

 charset="*" - Encodings on Chinese Web Pages

 Chinese Characters in PHP String Literals

 Multibyte String Functions in UTF-8 Encoding

 Input Text Data from Web Forms

 Input Chinese Text Data from Web Forms

 MySQL - Installation on Windows

 MySQL - Connecting PHP to Database

 MySQL - Character Set and Encoding

 MySQL - Sending Non-ASCII Text to MySQL

 Retrieving Chinese Text from Database to Web Pages

 Input Chinese Text Data to MySQL Database

 References

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