PHP Installation and Configuration

The configuration system that PHP uses for installation is one of those nice, simple things in life that makes it rosy. At first it might seem a little confusing, but it s really very easy. So let s dive right in. // ); //]] To download PHP, visit the php.net download page and click the link under the heading Complete Source Code. The first thing to do after downloading and unpacking your source archive is to kick the tires a little bit. You c...

Unfortunately, computing is more like an art than it is a science and things go wrong. I know that s a shocker but it s true. As such, there are common problems you might encounter when installing PHP. What? You mean PHP isn t perfect?! Well, as a language it almost is, but installing it can be a bear for the inexperienced. So let s take a look at what might happen and try to keep that blood pressure down, will ya? // ); //]] One of the more com...

One of the most important tasks when building software applications is gaining a clear understanding of which parts of the application can be configured by the user, and which parts cannot. For example, if you re building a generic tool to administer databases, you would obviously want the DBA to be able to configure the application for different databases by inputting the database names and access parameters for each. However, you might not want...

In this article, I will briefly describe how to compile PHP with ORACLE 8i support. When I tried to compile php with oracle support on Solaris 2.6, I received lots of problems. After tedious search on the internet, I have found a solution. I have following configuration: ORACLE 8.1.6 PHP 4.0.6 Apache 1.3.19 (Already Installed) Firstly unpack php as root: #tar zxvf php-4.0.6.tar.gz #cd php-4.0.6 Because apache is already installed, I want PHP to ...

This is documentation for installing Apache 1.3.9, PHP 3.011, Perl 5.00502 and MySQL 3.21.29, but should work with ANY recent (or more recent) versions of this software. Note if you have ActiveState for Perl installed, either uninstall it, or skip the installation section below for Perl, simply make sure the the shebang line (the first line of your Perl script) points to the path of the ActiveState file perl.exe. See more in Step Two...

Tired of handcrafting configuration file manipulation tools for your Web application? Save yourself some time with patConfiguration, a PHP class designed to assist developers with reading, writing and maintaining application configuration files. The nice thing about the open-source community is that no matter how arcane your requirement, there s usually someone out there who s got a tool to help you meet it. It might not be the best tool in the w...

One useful feature provided by the tight integration of PHP with Apache is the ability to install PHP as a dynamically loadable Apache module. This is a systems administrator s dream because it allows developers to upgrade PHP without having to recompile Apache. If you have ever gone through the 1.5 million steps required to install ApacheSSL, you can appreciate the value in this option. // ); //]] For more information on what dynamically shared...

One of the better inventions of the 21st Century is with no doubt PHP-Gtk. Released in March 2001, in an effort to show that PHP isn t just a web scripting language, PHP-Gtk offers coders running GTK the opportunity to create custom desktop applications without having to meddle outside of their language of choice. In this article, I m going to walk you through the process of installing PHP-Gtk on a Linux desktop. I m running KRUD 8, from tummy.c...

PHP, while originally designed and built to run on Unix, has had the ability since version 3 to run on Windows. That includes 9x, ME, NT, and 2000. In this article I m going to go through the process of installing PHP on Windows and explain what you should look out for. // ); //]] On Windows, as on Unix, you have two options for installing PHP: as a CGI or as an ISAPI module. The obvious benefit of the latter is speed. The downside is that this ...

Your production machine might have PHP installed on an Apache server in a Linux environment, but most of the people (like me) will develop and test their code on a Windows machine before they move their work on to the production machine. Working on this assumption, in this article I am going to step you through the installation of PHP interpreter under BadBlueWeb Server in windows environment. In the article we shall use BadBlue Personal Edition...

Jayesh Jain Introduction If you are a great fan of PHP, you might have installed PHP on an Apache server and used MySQL as the backend on windows or a linux machine. Most of the people will develop and test their code on a windows machine till they move their work on a production machine. In this article I am going to step you through installing PHP under IIS (Internet Information Server) on Windows 2000 and use Microsoft Access as backend (in f...

Just tuning in? If you missed the first installment in the series, you can read it here. One of the questions I frequently get asked by new PHP programmers is How do I install PHP on Windows so I can test my scripts? In this article, we will be taking a look at the answer to that question and examining the steps needed to set up a development environment for PHP on Windows. Even if you already have a web host that supports PHP, being ...

In a previous article, I gave an overview of what the php.ini file is and how you might use it. Now let s get into detail on some of the more useful directives and learn how to use them. output_buffering One of the newest (and greatest) features of PHP is the ability to send header lines anywhere within a script. This directive turns on output buffering for all files. You should probably leave this set to off because calling one of the output b...

In this article we re going to discuss security issues relating to PHP. PHP can be a very powerful and, overall, secure language. That doesn t mean you can just throw caution to the wind, however. // ); //]] Since PHP is most commonly used as an Apache module, it derives its security model to a large degree from Apache, which, if configured properly, is a very secure environment. In cases where PHP is used as a CGI, this benefit is lost. While c...

One of the most powerful features of PHP is the ability to customize its behavior through a configuration file. In this first article, we re going to cover some of the ways the php.ini file can be used and how it might help you. The second article will outline in detail many of the more frequently used directives of the php.ini file. // ); //]] Using the PHP configuration file can make administration of PHP as simple as administration of Apache!...