Freedomware <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on Sunday, January 11, 2004 4:40 PM said:
> Which PHP do you recommend I download - 3.0, 4.0 or 5.0? Your PHP > tutorial at http://www.php.net/tut.php offers a link to preconfigured > packages (Apache, PHP and MySQL). I noticed that the package that got > the most votes by far is FoxServ (over 4,000 votes) - > http://www.hotscripts.com/Detailed/9942.html Therefore, I'm > tentatively choosing it, due to its popularity. Like I mentioned in my other email you want to install whatever version of php that is going to be used to serve the pages on the web. Your development server and your live server should be the same. > Another question: I think I have a Microsoft IIS server (included with > Windows XP Pro). If so, will I have to disable or uninstall it before > I install an Apache server? It may be included but I think, as you discovered, it isn't necessarily installed. > Also, I hope to eventually get an Apple/Mac computer and a Linux hard > drive (on either my PC or Apple). You seem to be a little confused. Apple/Mac are the same thing. Apple is the company that makes the Macintosh computer. There's no such thing as a "linux hard drive" as you put it. If you get OSX (runs on the Macintosh) you'll have an operating system based on Unix. In this case you can install most of, if not all the open source packages as well as Macintosh software. Windows software is another story. As far as the "linux hard drive" goes I think you mean you plan to have another OS (linux) installed on a partition of a hard drive. In this case you'll be able to boot into OSX (or Windows XP, etc.) OR Linux. But not at the same time. > If I install Apache/PHP/MySQL on an > Apple, will I be in familiar territory, or is it quite different from > using PHP with Windows? They are pretty close. A few things work differently but likely not anything you'll delve into. > Would I be able to work on my website with > FrontPage on a PC and publish some PHP pages to the web, then add some > functions with Dreamweaver on a Mac and republish them to the web, or > would the two PHP programs (Windows and Apple) have a conflict? You will likely have problems depending on what versions of FrontPage and Dreamweaver you're using. I would suggest very highly that you DO NOT USE FRONTPAGE. To use frontpage properly your server will have to have Frontpage Extensions installed and some hosts don't have that. Especially those that deal with Apache/PHP as Frontpage was made to edit ASP/VBScript pages. (That's why your frontpage doesn't recognize PHP.) > Here's one last question that's a bit of an aside: When I work on a > webpage with a .php extension in FrontPage, it only opens the page in > Notepad, and I can't preview it in Internet Explorer (though I can > view it in IE once it's online). Do you have any idea how to fix it? See above. Hope this helps, Chris. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
