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[Qacer]

Hi all,

I'm on a Win XP system right now. Is there a way to simulate PHP scripts and mySQL databases locally? I'm going to try my hands on PHP after so many years using Miva. I know Miva has an app to simulate their script and database locally.

Thanks!

[iamdave]

Get phpTriad from SourceForge, great program. You can run PHP/MySQL together, and server it on http://localhost

[GeorgeC]

I just recently installed phpdev. Easy to install and works flawlessly.

[Qacer]

Thanks for the tip! I'm going to download it right now. ciao..

[Qacer]

Dang! PHPTriad doesn't like being installed in any HD that is not C:\. I have my cd drives on c and d.. My HDs are on f and g.

[MGCJerry]

You could also get Apache, php, and mysql installed locally...

I do this for learning php/ mysql programming and I'm actually runnig a LAN site on it.

Hmm.... I might go check this out, it sounds quite interesting...

[DigiCrime]

Nusphere offers some products that you can downloaded for free, it installs apache, php, sql automatically and can run it as a service or run stand alone www.nusphere.com ive used it before on XP, works just fine.... now i use IIS on win2k