On 7 Oct, 12:39, Helixpoint <helixpo...@gmail.comwrote:
VERY NEW. What do I have to download/do to get up and running on a
Windows Vista box
Dave
Initially, all you need is PHP and a webserver. There are some bundled
packages which try to simplify the process. PHP will happily work with
Apache, IIS (not free), Xitami and lighttpd - all of which are
available on Windows. There may other webservers too.
Have a google for XAMPP, WAMP, PHPTriad.
At some point you may want to add a database - although PHP includes
an embedded engine (SQLite) most apps need some permanent storage
abckend - and MySQL is usually the DBMS of choice - but you can
equally use many of the mainstream commercial oferings. The other
major OSS DBMS is PostGreSQL - but I don't know if that's available on
MSWindows.
C.