Archived: Downloading and Installing PHP 7.0 for Windows

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∟Archived: Downloading and Installing PHP 7.0 for Windows

This section provides a tutorial example on how to download and install the PHP engine 7.0 on a Windows system.

1. Go to windows.php.net/download/ and download the "VC14 x86 Thread Safe (2016-Jan-06 23:30:05)" binary version for Windows. You will get a file called "php-7.0.2-Win32-VC14-x86.zip" of 21,846,474 bytes.

2. Unzip "php-7.0.2-Win32-VC14-x86.zip" to \php folder.

3. Open a command window, and try the following commands:

herong> \php\php -v

4. If see an error message saying: "The program can't start because VCRUNTIME140.dll is missing from your computer. Try reinstalling the program to fix this problem.", you need to install "Visual Studio 2015 x86".

Go to "Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015" page at microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=48145.
Click the "Download" button.
Save the download file "vc_redist.x86.exe" to desktop.
Double-click on "vc_redist.x86.exe" to run it.
Follow instruction to finish installation.

5. Open a command window, and try the following commands again:

herong> \php\php -v

PHP 7.0.2 (cli) (built: Jan  6 2016 13:05:11) ( ZTS )
Copyright (c) 1997-2015 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v3.0.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2015 Zend Technologies

Cool, both Command Line Interface (CLI) and Common Gateway Interface (CGI) of PHP are working!

Table of Contents

About This Book

Introduction and Installation of PHP

PHP Script File Syntax

PHP Data Types and Data Literals

Variables, References, and Constants

Expressions, Operations and Type Conversions

Conditional Statements - "if" and "switch"

Loop Statements - "while", "for", and "do ... while"

Function Declaration, Arguments, and Return Values

Arrays - Ordered Maps

Interface with Operating System

Introduction of Class and Object

Integrating PHP with Apache Web Server

Retrieving Information from HTTP Requests

Creating and Managing Sessions in PHP Scripts

Sending and Receiving Cookies in PHP Scripts

Controlling HTTP Response Header Lines in PHP Scripts

Managing File Upload

MySQL Server Connection and Access Functions

Functions to Manage Directories, Files and Images

SOAP Extension Function and Calling Web Services

SOAP Server Functions and Examples

Localization Overview of Web Applications

Using Non-ASCII Characters in HTML Documents

Using Non-ASCII Characters as PHP Script String Literals

Receiving Non-ASCII Characters from Input Forms

"mbstring" Extension and Non-ASCII Encoding Management

Managing Non-ASCII Character Strings with MySQL Servers

Parsing and Managing HTML Documents

Configuring and Sending Out Emails

Image and Picture Processing

Managing ZIP Archive Files

Managing PHP Engine and Modules on macOS

Managing PHP Engine and Modules on CentOS

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Archived: Installing Apache HTTP Server 2.4.12 on Windows

Archived: Publishing PHP Scripts as Web Pages

Archived: Configuration for php_mysql.dll Library

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