Hi Frank, Wez, and all!
Wez promised us that he will help rewamp the Windows installation part, but he does not reply to our mails. Our dilemma is the following:
- the current Windows docs suggest users to copy files to the windows and system32 folders
- people (Daniel Convissor) report that it is possible to not do this, but set PATH to include the PHP folder and the dlls folder below the PHP folder (for PHP 4) + set PHPRC
- others (Nuno Lopes) report that it does not work for PHP 5
- the PHP 5 package suspiciosly looks like if the dlls and sapi folder was merged with the root folder just to support Daniel's suggestion, or enable setup with even less configuration (no PATH and no PHPRC setting required) <- just a hiphotesis
Now we need someone with decent Windows PHP knowledge to help us clean up the installation part. What do we need?
- Simple manual installation instructions for PHP 4 on Windows - Simple manual installation instructions for PHP 5 on Windows - Instructions on how can you run them paralelly (both server independent - ie. CLI, and server dependent - ie. Apache, etc).
Wez said it is not required to copy files around neither for PHP 4 nor for PHP5. Now we need exact instructions.
Thanks, Gabor Hojtsy - PHP Documentation Editor
