Has anyone actually installed PHP4 from RPMs?

I'm not a Linux Guru but have successfully installed PHP4 from source so it's compiled with MySQL. My webserver works fine and I am happy but I set myself the task of getting the same configuration through installing RPMs. Unfortunately, I have been unsuccessfull in trying to install PHP4 from RPMs on Redhat 7.1. I am using the GnoRPM package and both MySQL and Apache installed reasonably smoothly but when it came to PHP4, I just kept finding I needed so many dependancies that it's become a joke. Everytime I download and installed one, it then asks for 2-4 more which in turn ask for 2-4 of the dependancy of the dependancy. I am not familiar with the command-line approach to installing RPMs which might be the way to go but if anyone out there has installed PHP4 using either method, I would love to know how they did it. Cheers Phil