is here - and I would strongly recommend that you download it!

Version 1: 2.754MB PHP 4.0 Apache 1.3.12 phpMyAdmin MySQL 3.22 Downloads to date.. 6238

Version 2: 5.463MB PHP 4.03pl Apache 1.3.14 phpMyAdmin V2.01 MySQL 3.22 Downloads to date.. 20870

If you have any major problems in installing PHP on your windows machine, please leave a message at the firethreads development forum .This is the quickest and best way to get an answer on any problems you may be having. To learn php I would suggest a trip to devshed, for general html/javascript etc help Website Abstraction is probably a must!. hotscripts.com is another of the best resources on the net. Versie is here! With many thanks to Herman Oostindjer for the translation. ... &.. Versión is here!,. With many thanks to Corey (cjubenville) for the translation. If any of you good people out there want to translate this page into another language it would be very much appreciated - German & Italian appear to be the languages next most requested. if you can help please mail me here.

Version 1: Downloaded the phpdev.zip file - extract it to C:/ , note you can install the folder anywhere but the apache and php configurations are set to c:/phpdev/ - you will have to change these settings if you put the folder anywhere else. Do not worry if you already have PHP3 on your machine - this installation will not affect it. OK lets push the button! - in Internet explorer go to the folder c:/phpdev/ and open it - you will see a file called 'go' and one called 'stop', double click the 'go' file - this will open up a DOS window ,this is good as it means that Apache is running, minimise the window. is here - and I would strongly recommend that you take a look! Or download phpdev3 now from here if you prefer Well I know this was a bit easy but that is basically it! If you open your browser and type in http://localhost in the address bar you should see a gray screen with 2 files on it this means that the install worked and that PHP is up and running - to be extra sure - click on the php link - this will run php_info() and tell you all sorts of interesting things about your server and your system. Next: MySQL If you already have MySQL on your machine or do not plan to use it - you are best to delete the one that came with the bundle - you can delete the whole folder. If you do this you will need to edit the go.bat file that starts up Apache and MySQL - in windows explorer navigate to C:/phpdev/go.bat - open the go.bat with windows notepad and change it until it looks like this cd apache apache.exe Done! Please note that I strongly recommend that you download version3 of the bundle, I just left these here because.... well I am not sure really!, but there may well be a good reason as soon as I can think of one .

Version 2: Version 2 is as easy to install as V1, just extract the zip file to C:/ or whatever your main drive is called. Winzip will then create the folder C:/phpdev2. in phpdev2 you will find 4 folders. phpdev2/apache is where apache lives, phpdev2/php is where php4.03 lives and phpdev2/mysql is where MySQL is going to live. The other folder is phpdev2/www , this is your document root, i.e. any files that you wish apache to serve, and PHP to parse need to be in here. This is where apache will point your browser when you type http://localhost into the address bar, you can of course re configure apache to have your document root anywhere - but until things are up and running - stick with the default. is here - and I would strongly recommend that you take a look! Or download phpdev2 now from here if you prefer Well that's pretty much it! - if all the folders are in the right places all you need do is navigate to c:/phpdev/ and double click the go.bat file, this will start up MySQL and Apache - php will start up as and when it is called by apache so you do not need to start it up yourself. OK - now open your favourite browser and type http://localhost in the address bar, if apache is running you will see the test page open up, so far we only know that apace works - click the 2 links that test PHP and MySQL, you will know if something is not working as apache will give you an error message. Quick tip if you have a proxy Internet sever... you may need to go into your Internet settings and explicitly tell IE or NS not to use your proxy settings for addresses beginning with http://localhost, you may need to do this anyway but proxies cause the biggest problems. That's it - don't forget the help forums, any problems or questions or abuse should be posted there.