Part I. Getting Started

Table of Contents

1. Introduction

What is PHP?

What can PHP do?

2. A simple tutorial

What do I need?

Your first PHP-enabled page

Something Useful

Dealing with Forms

Using old code with new versions of PHP

What's next?

3. Installation

General Installation Considerations

Unix/HP-UX installs

Unix/Linux installs

Using Packages

Unix/Mac OS X installs

Using Packages

Compiling for OS X server

Compiling for MacOS X client

Unix/OpenBSD installs

Using Binary Packages

Using Ports

Older Releases

Unix/Solaris installs

Required software

Using Packages

Installation on UNIX systems

Apache Module Quick Reference

Building

Installation on Windows systems

Windows InstallShield

Manual Installation Steps

Building from source

Installation of Windows extensions

Servers-CGI/Commandline

Testing

Benchmarking

Using Variables

Servers-Apache

Details of installing PHP with Apache on Unix

Installing PHP on Windows with Apache 1.3.x

Servers-Apache 2.0

PHP and Apache 2.0 compatibility notes

PHP and Apache 2 on Linux

PHP and Apache 2.0 on Windows

Servers-Caudium

Servers-fhttpd

Servers-IIS/PWS

Windows and PWS/IIS 3

Windows and PWS 4 or newer

Windows NT/2000/XP and IIS 4 or newer

Servers-Netscape, iPlanet and SunONE

Installing PHP with NES/iPlanet/SunONE Webserver on Sun Solaris

Installing PHP with NES/iPlanet/SunONE on Windows

Special use for error pages or self-made directory listings (PHP >= 4.3.3)

Note about nsapi_virtual and subrequests (PHP >= 4.3.3)

Servers-OmniHTTPd Server

OmniHTTPd 2.0b1 and up for Windows

Servers-Oreilly Website Pro

Oreilly Website Pro 2.5 and up for Windows

Servers-Sambar

Sambar Windows

Servers-Xitami

Xitami for Windows

Servers-Other web servers

Problems?

Read the FAQ

Other problems

Bug reports

Miscellaneous configure options

Configure Options in PHP 4

4. Runtime Configuration

The configuration file

How to change configuration settings

Running PHP as Apache module

Other interfaces to PHP

Miscellaneous configuration directives

Httpd Options

Language Options

Resource Limits

Data Handling

Paths and Directories

File Uploads

General SQL

Debugger Configuration Directives