RE: [PHP-DOC] help needed with windows install part of the PHP manual
| From: | Steph | Date: | Mon, 21 Jun 2004 10:34:57 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PHP-DOC] help needed with windows install part of the PHP manual | ||
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> Thats not as simple as it sounds. It is possible for php 5,
> because there is
> php.exe for the cli-version and php-cgi.exe for the cgi-version.
> Unfortunately this is not true for php 4 versions, before we can instruct
> people to dump all contents to e.g. c:\php. We have to instruct them, to
> rename php.exe to php-cgi.exe or to rename /cli/php.exe to something else.
Huh?
In PHP 4 distros, php.exe stays as php.exe, and /cli/php.exe as
/cli/php.exe - the renaming happens in PHP 5 only, where we have php.exe and
php-cgi.exe in the same toplevel directory.
> So far, there is no easy solution "dump all contents to c:\php",
> which will
> work for php 4 and php 5, without specific instructions for php 4.
You need specific instructions for both 4 and 5, but it's hardly complicated
in either case..
> Of course, this would be possible if php 4 get packaged like php 5, but i
> doubt it will happen:-(
Too right :) it's produced by a different build system.