Quoting www.php.net
PHP is a server-side, cross-platform, HTML embedded scripting language.
In the beginning it was just a simple guestbook-processor, and it was growing and growing Since Version 3 it is really powerful Webdevelopment-language
From the authors point of view:
Since Version 4 its capable and robust for enterprise Webapplications. It powerful, supports almost all important Databases natively, and other throught ODBC. It a few times faster that ASP on M$-Systems on the same Hardware.
There are other extensions available like apc which speeds up processing about 50-400% (depends on the php-code you wrote)
Depending on your needs there are some software to install first. One already installed Software according this document is MySQL, because its needed by mod_auth_mysql.
IMAP means "Internet Mail Application Protocol" and is a substitute for the POP protocol. It allows you to keep all Mails in different folders on the server, which (should) be backed up - never lose important Email, because your local Harddrive crashes
cd /usr/local tar -xvfz imap.tar.Z cd imap make slx SSLTYPE=unix |
Notice:
imap.tar.Z is usually a symlink to the latest release, today its linked to imap-2001a.tar.Z
If you dont need SSL-Support, remove the "SSLTYPE=unix" behind the make command
Postgres is a very Powerful and fast Database
Its like MySQL wonderful for Webapplications, but from my Point of view, not such comfortable to handle like MySQL. If your Webapplication writes a lot of Data, or you need proofed transaction-capabilities, Postgres is your friend
Origin-Site: http://www.postgresql.org (Select a mirror close to you)
cd /usr/local tar -xvzf postgresql-7.1.3.tar.gz cd postgresql-7.1.3 ./configure \ --with-perl \ --with-odbc \ make make install echo /usr/local/pgsql/lib >> /etc/ld.so.conf ldconfig |
Quoting www.pdflib.com
PDFlib: A library for generating PDF on the fly PDFlib is the premier software component if you want to generate PDF on your server, convert text and graphics, or implement PDF output in your own products.
This is a commercial Procduct! read the licence carefully to see if you need a commercial licence or not!
Origin-Site: http://www.pdflib.com/pdflib/download/pdflib-4.0.1.tar.gz
cd /usr/local/ tar -xvzf pdflib-4.0.1.tar.gz cd pdflib-4.0.1 ./configure --enable-shared-pdflib --enable-cxx make make install ldconfig |
gettext is a library for interneationalization, and needed by php
Origin-Site: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gettext (select a mirror close to you)
cd /usr/local tar -xvzf gettext-0.10.40.tar.gz cd gettext-0.10.40 ./configure make make check make install ldconfig |
zlib is a lossless data-compression library for use on virtually any computer hardware and operating system
Origin-Site: ftp://ftp.info-zip.org/pub/infozip/zlib/zlib.tar.gz (select a mirror close to you)
cd /usr/local tar -xvzf zlib.tar.gz cd zlib-1.1.3/ ./configure make make check make install ldconfig |
cd /usr/local tar -xvzf php-4.1.0.tar.gz cd php-4.1.0 ./configure \ --with-apxs=/usr/local/apache/bin/apxs \ --with-mysql=/usr/local/mysql \ --with-pgsql=/usr/local/pgsql \ --enable-track-vars \ --with-openssl=/usr/local/ssl \ --with-imap-ssl=/usr/local/imap-2001a \ --with-gd --with-ldap \ --enable-ftp \ --enable-sysvsem \ --enable-sysvshm \ --enable-sockets \ --with-pdflib=/usr/local \ --with-gettext \ --with-mm=/usr/local/mm-1.1.3 \ --with-jpeg-dir=/usr/lib \ --with-zlib-dir=/usr/local \ make make install |
Copy the sample php.ini to /usr/local/lib/php.ini
cp /usr/local/php-4.1.0/php.ini-dist /usr/local/lib/php.ini |
uncomment (remove the # at begin of line) the following lines in /usr/local/apache/conf/httpd.conf
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps |
you may wish to add the following:
AddType application/x-httpd-php .phtml AddType application/x-httpd-php .php3 |
Restart apache by issuing the following command:
/usr/local/apache/bin/apachectl restart |