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∟Archived: Download and Install PHP 5.2.2 on Windows

This section describes how to download and install PHP 5.2.2 on Windows systems.

PHP is getting very popular now and becoming the number one scripting language to build dynamic Web sites. Here is what I did to download and install PHP 5.2.2 on my Windows system:

1. Go to the official Website for PHP at php.net.

2. Click the "downloads" links in top menu. You will see the download page.

3. Go to the "Windows Binaries" section and click "PHP 5.2.2 zip package" to start downloading. If you see a newer version available, take that version.

4. Save the downloaded file, php-5.2.2-Win32.zip, 9,954,944 bytes, in a temporary directory.

5. Create a new directory called \local\php and unzip php-5.0.4-Win32.zip in that directory.

6. Open a command window to test the installation:

C:\herong> \local\php\php -version
PHP 5.2.2 (cli) (built: May  2 2007 19:18:26)
Copyright (c) 1997-2007 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.2.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2007 Zend Technologies

Cool, PHP has been installed on my Windows system now.

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

Chinese Text Encoding Conversion and Corruptions

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►Archived: Download and Install PHP 5.2.2 on Windows

Archived: Downloading Apache 2.2.4 Binary for Windows

Archived: Installing Apache 2.2.4 on Windows Systems

Archived: MySQL 5.0 Download, Installation and Start

Archived: php_mysql.dll - Configuring PHP to Use MySQL Extension

Archived: Commonly Used php_mysql.dll Functions

Archived: mysql_connect() - Creating MySQL Connections

Archived: Character Set Variables on MySQL 5

Archived: Non-ASCII Test Analysis on MySQL 5

Archived: Fetching Non-ASCII Text from MySQL 5

Archived: Sending Text in Latin1 Encoding to MySQL 5

Archived: Sending Text in UTF8 Encoding to MySQL 5

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