How to install PHP 5.2.8

Friday, 23 January 2009 15:07 |

Written by NetworkNerd007 |

HOW TO INSTALL PHP 5.2.8 FOR WINDOWS

This tutorial will show you how to install PHP 5.2.8 for your Windows Apache server. If you have already installed XAMPP, you do not need this tutorial, because PHP was already installed for you.

I recommend using XAMPP to install PHP because it will install everything you will need including Apache, PHP 5, MySQL, and phpMyAdmin far easier than doing all of this manually.

If for some reason you insist on doing it the hard way, this tutorial will guide you through it. PHP 5.2.8 is actually very easy to install, but I've discovered some issues that I do not know how to completely fix. I mention how to fix the most important one in the tutorial below, but this fix generates another error I do not know how to fix nor do I know the relevance of it. Read the notes below the video before proceeding and for more info on this.

First you need to download PHP. You can do that from http://www.php.net/downloads.php . I recommend using the installer, which is what I am using in this tutorial. I mention how to correct some errors with PHP 5.2.8 in the video and the files I refer to using can be found in this download: PHP_FIX.zip

The other files contained inside of the folder "For PHP EXT" are for phpmyadmin, which you can go ahead and copy them to php/ext folder if you wish.

Next, I recommend How to install MySQL 5.1.30 Database Server

** NOTES **

The errors generated from the above fix are located in the Apache error.log file and as follows:

Cannot find module (IP-MIB): At line 0 in (none)
Cannot find module (IF-MIB): At line 0 in (none)
Cannot find module (TCP-MIB): At line 0 in (none)
Cannot find module (UDP-MIB): At line 0 in (none)
Cannot find module (SNMPv2-MIB): At line 0 in (none)
Cannot find module (SNMPv2-SMI): At line 0 in (none)
Cannot find module (UCD-SNMP-MIB): At line 0 in (none)
Cannot find module (UCD-DEMO-MIB): At line 0 in (none)
Cannot find module (SNMP-TARGET-MIB): At line 0 in (none)
Cannot find module (SNMP-VIEW-BASED-ACM-MIB): At line 0 in (none)
Cannot find module (SNMP-COMMUNITY-MIB): At line 0 in (none)
Cannot find module (UCD-DLMOD-MIB): At line 0 in (none)
Cannot find module (SNMP-FRAMEWORK-MIB): At line 0 in (none)
Cannot find module (SNMP-MPD-MIB): At line 0 in (none)
Cannot find module (SNMP-USER-BASED-SM-MIB): At line 0 in (none)
Cannot find module (SNMP-NOTIFICATION-MIB): At line 0 in (none)
Cannot find module (SNMPv2-TM): At line 0 in (none)

I do not know the significance of this error or it's effect, so use the above fix at your own risk. If you have more info or find more info on the issues mentioned in this tutorial, please contact me ASAP and let me know.