Ian Landsman is Starting From Scratch, July 27, 2006:

Windows PHP Installer….. Yippee!!

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Just the other day I was thinking about hiring a Windows programmer type to make a decent PHP installer for me, because the current one is unusable. It doesn't install any of the modules so it's totally worthless. My customers are then forced to do a manual installation, which is tricky to say the least.

Well it seems that those fine devs who work on PHP have beat me to the punch and are working on one for PHP 5.2. A few details are here. There's a more in depth discussion here.

Just taking a quick look at my last 10 trials, 9 of 10 were Windows and I'm 100% sure my conversions would go up significantly if PHP was easier to install on Windows.

Happy days are here again!

Discussion

Hi,

Have you had a look at XAMPP (http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html). It can automatically install Apache, MySQL, and PHP all in one go for you. HTH.

Cheers,
Phillip Flores

Created by Phillip Flores on 08.10.2006 11:46 pm

Thanks Phillip. Some customers do use that, but many are locked into IIS since that's all their company uses, so the installer will be a huge help to them.

Created by Ian on 08.11.2006 12:42 am

 

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