basic install

I am inside the php 4.3.4 folder in the terminal window. I am trying to configure PHP. There is a config.guess and a install-sh. What do I do with that? I don't know how to install PHP. The cookbook said to download Xtools which I'm trying to get version 1.2 because I have MacOS X.2.8. I don't have a web server except the personal web server which comes with the MacOS X. I am just trying to learn PHP. The first step is to run this command which I did and nothing happens: /configure --help | less Is there a simple configuration just for practise? the cookbook also says: or instance, to link in support for reading and writing XML using the DOM, using the FTP module, and communicating with LDAP servers, use the command: [benlev:~/php-4.3.0] adam% ./configure --with-dom --enable-ftp --with-ldap which I assume is a basic installation but I don't know how to get that far since I can't get ./configure to work I would like to read and write using XML what is the DOM? Do I need the FTP module to upload pages to a server or can I use a FTP program like interarchy? At this point I don't have a server so I suppose I don't need LDAP but what is enable ftp with LDAP mean? thankx,

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