Downloading and Installing PHP 5.0.4 for Windows
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This section provides a tutorial example on how to download and install the PHP engine 5.0.4 on a Windows system.
1. Go to http://www.php.net, and download PHP 5.0.4 binary for Windows. You will get a file called php-5.0.4-Win32.zip of 7488 KB.
2. Unzip php-5.0.4-Win32.zip to \php directory.
3. Open a command window, and try the following commands:
>\php\php -v PHP 5.0.4 (cli) (built: Mar 31 2005 02:45:48) Copyright (c) 1997-2004 The PHP Group Zend Engine v2.0.4-dev, Copyright (c) 1998-2004 Zend Technologies >\php\php-cgi -v PHP 5.0.4 (cgi-fcgi) (built: Mar 31 2005 02:45:43) Copyright (c) 1997-2004 The PHP Group Zend Engine v2.0.4-dev, Copyright (c) 1998-2004 Zend Technologies
Cool, both Command Line Interface (CLI) and Common Gateway Interface (CGI) of PHP are working!
Last update: 2005.
Sections in This Chapter
What Is PHP?
Downloading and Installing PHP 5.2.2 for Windows
"php -help" - Command Line Options
"php -m" - Compiled-in Modules
"php -i" - PHP Engine Information
Hello.php - My First PHP Script
Adding PHP to IIS as CGI
