Installing PHP

PHP is being prefered by many web developers to perform their server side scripting nowsdays. PHP is getting more and more efficient in recent time supporting for its wide approval. Lets see how to install a php parser so that your local system web server can make use of it to parse any php web page.

While i am writing this post the most recent version was 5.2.6. Download the zipped file PHP 5.2.6 zip package and extract it to the directory where Apache is installed.

Now copy the file'php.ini-dist' inside moved 'php 5.2.6' folder to %SYSTEMROOT% in Windows XP and rename it to 'php.ini'. Then Copy the file 'php5ts.dll' to %SYSTEMROOT%\System32 in WindowXP.



Right now setting up php is done and it need to be added to apache web server by configuring the httpd.conf file. This will discussed in next post.