Introduction and Installation of PHP

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This chapter provides tutorial notes and example codes on PHP installation. Topics include quick introduction of PHP, downloading and installing PHP engine, PHP command line options, writing first PHP script, adding PHP to IIS server.

What Is PHP?

Downloading and Installing PHP 5.0.4 for Windows

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

Conclusion:

• PHP can be added to the IIS server as a CGI interface to server PHP scripts as Web pages.
• You can also add PHP to the IIS server as a server module using the php5isapi.dll file.