Comments on: PHP4 and PHP5 under Windows

By: SjG

SjG — Mon, 22 May 2006 00:05:22 +0000

Actually, even easier, is installing XAMPP. There's a batch file that lets you swap between PHP 4 and 5, and it isolates the Apache, MySQL, and PHP installs in their own localized directory. If you want to go crazy, and have other versions of MySQL around, for example, you can have both XAMPP, EasyPHP, and probably others all installed at once. You just have to make sure you're only running one at a time (i.e., don't let them install as services, but launch them manually through their respective control apps). Easier than VMWare, and all free OSS.

By: Doc Holiday

Doc Holiday — Thu, 11 May 2006 16:55:56 +0000

Actually, if you have a recent machine, why not just install VMWare Player with one of the free installs of Debian or something. That way, you can have a full custom environment — different versions of PHP, MySQL, etc.

For the base setup, this is all free. If you want to get fancy, you’ll have to buy the sofwtare.

http://www.vmware.com

By: Richard Quadling

Richard Quadling — Thu, 11 May 2006 13:41:06 +0000

About to try this …

Use php.ini for PHP4 and php-cgi/php-cli/php-isapi/php-apache .ini for PHP5.

About to try this.

Hold on.

By: SjG

SjG — Thu, 19 Jan 2006 18:07:46 +0000

Vim is a version of the free “vi” editor. It comes as part of the Cygwin package (http://www.cygwin.com), or as its own download (http://www.vim.org/download.php)

You can do the edit in question with any editor that will handle binary files, though.

By: Jason R.

Jason R. — Thu, 19 Jan 2006 14:36:00 +0000

vim? What is vim and is it something I can get a hold of so that I can do this myself?