I have XP Home edition which does not support server-side scripting. I have installed APACHE 2.2 and MySQL along with PHP. All my PHP does is display the code.
If I install WAMP will it allow my Home Edition to use PHP? I am starting to run low on hard disk space (cuz I leave a lot for cache etc), so I wanted to be sure it would work before I take the time to clean off some pics and unused progs.
I am an older accounting database programmer just learning client/server architecture and object-oriented programming. I have already learned (X)HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. I started learning PHP, but can't test run it. I know just enough to be dangerous. ;)
Is there anyone out there with XP Home Edition running a server and PHP? If so, what changes did you have to make? Do I have to upgrade to XP Professional?
I have a potential client that needs to merge a price list into a series of Excel parts tables using the Cat#. I think I will be able to do it in PHP.
Thank you,
Mrs Bryant
I am afraid I have never used WAMP on a XP Home machine - all my PC's are XP Pro or XP Media Center. However, I am almost sure that WAMP works on XP Home.
I have never tried to install Apache/PHP/MySQL from scratch as I just run XAMMP or WAMP and then I am up and running in 5min.
If you are low on space then you can A) install XAMMP to a USB drive (I am using mine right now) or B) get a copy of a bootable Linux like Ubuntu or Knoppix and run your server off the CD.
But if WAMP is too big you can use XAMMP Lite as it is only 140MB in size.
