Re: pl/php for windows

[Bob McConnell <rmcconne(at)lightlink(dot)com>]

roche magsayo wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is it possible that we can install pl/php on windows? where can i get
> the installer of it? thanks a lot.

Which do you want, Perl or PHP?

Active State <http://www.activestate.com/activeperl/> has a free Perl 
package that has been the reference for Perl on Windows. I had been 
using that for several years. But Google's Summer of Code produced the 
Camelbox <http://code.google.com/p/camelbox/> last year, which also is 
quite good. I now use the latter at work, and the best feature is that 
it uses the core CPAN server and mirrors instead of Active State's less 
than complete mirror.

An alternate method is to install Cygwin <http://www.cygwin.com/> from 
Red Hat. That not only gives you Perl, but a complete POSIX style 
workspace, including the Bourne Again Shell (BASH), GCC and the full 
Unix style utility kit. But if you do go with this, heed their warning 
about not sending email to the developers. Some of those folks have very 
sensitive egos and will react violently to the most trivial comments.

I have heard that there are command line interpreters for PHP available, 
but have never used one. The normal way to get it is install an Apache 
server with the PHP module. You may have to recompile PHP if the default 
options aren't correct for you. I always have to do that on Linux 
because a few years ago we discovered Postgres is much better than the 
MySQL for serious commercial use.

Bob McConnell
N2SPP