PHP Tutorial 2

PHP Installation

What do you need?
Most people would prefer to install a all-in-one solution:
WampServer 2.0i [07/11/09]  for Windows platform Includes : - Apache 2.2.11 - MySQL 5.1.36 - PHP 5.3.0
http://www.wampserver.com/en/
http://lamphowto.com/  for Linux platform

Already have a web server?
If your server supports PHP you don't need to do anything.
Just create some .php files in your web directory, and the server will parse them for you. Because it is free, most web hosts offer PHP support. However, if your server does not support PHP, you must install PHP. Here is a link to a good tutorial from PHP.net on how to install PHP5:
http://www.php.net/manual/en/install.php

Download PHP
Download PHP for free here: http://www.php.net/downloads.php

Download MySQL Database
Download MySQL for free here: http://www.mysql.com/downloads/index.html

Download Apache Server
Download Apache for free here: http://httpd.apache.org/download.cgi

Download a nice text editor [Not required]
http://www.flos-freeware.ch/notepad2.html