About this Manual
This manual is written in SGML using the DocBook DTD (http://www.ora.com/davenport/), using
DSSSL (http://www.jclark.com/dsssl/) (Document Style and Semantics Specification Language) for
formatting. The tools used for formatting HTML, TeX and RTF versions are Jade
(http://www.jclark.com/jade/), written by James Clark (http://www.jclark.com/bio.htm) and The Modular
DocBook Stylesheets (http://nwalsh.com/docbook/dsssl/) written by Norman Walsh (http://nwalsh.com/).
PHP’s documentation framework was assembled by Stig Sæther Bakken (mailto:stig@php.net).
Preface ......................41
About this Manual.........41
I. Getting Started .....42
1. Introduction..43
What is PHP?..........................................................................................................................43
What can PHP do?..................................................................................................................43
A Brief History of PHP ..........................................................................................................44
2. instalations ...45
Downloading the latest version ..............................................................................................45
instalations on UNIX systems ................................................................................................45
Quick instalations Instructions 3pod (Apache Module Version) ...........................................45
Configuration ................................................................................................................46
Apache module .............................................................................................................46
fhttpd module................................................................................................................46
CGI version...................................................................................................................47
Database Support Options.............................................................................................47
Adabas D.............................................................................................................47
dBase ...................................................................................................................47
filePro ..................................................................................................................47
mSQL ..................................................................................................................48
MySQL................................................................................................................48
iODBC.................................................................................................................48
OpenLink ODBC.................................................................................................48
Oracle ..................................................................................................................49
PostgreSQL .........................................................................................................49
Solid ....................................................................................................................49
Sybase..................................................................................................................49
Sybase-CT ...........................................................................................................50
Velocis .................................................................................................................50
A custom ODBC library......................................................................................50
Unified ODBC.....................................................................................................50
LDAP...................................................................................................................51
Other configure options.................................................................................................51
–with-mcrypt =DIR..............................................................................................51
–enable-sysvsem..................................................................................................51
–enable-sysvshm .................................................................................................51
–with-xml ............................................................................................................52
–enable-maintainer-mode....................................................................................52
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