PHPassistance please

Greetings I am trying to build a local server environment for my web development projects (I also try to get oscommerce working) . In order to achieve this I downloaded XAMPP but this software package appears to be still in development, full of bugs and incompatibilities. I just simply don't have time to hang around their forum for the next half year to hopefully get it going. Now I decided to download Apache/PHP/MySQL/Zend, etc, all individual and build my local server. Apache is on my Windows XP-Pro SP2 already and running just fine (very simple and clean installation) Next: - I downloaded the Windows Binary Installer<http://windows.php.net/downloads/releases/php-5.3.0-nts-Win32-VC9-x86.msi>[23.85MB] sha1: 1d2c4e6aa5b3d308fb57dd0e2621b6db6d7167f2 This should have given me a window during the installation like "attachment_1", in which I can choose Apache as my server but - it didn't - Then I downloaded PHP complete source codePHP 5.2.10 (tar.gz)<http://www.php.net/get/php-5.2.10.tar.gz/from/a/mirror>[11,166Kb] - 18 June 2009 md5: 85753ba2909ac9fae5bca516adbda9e9 Now all I need is your assistance on how to build PHP (and possibly include phpMyAdmin) so it would work with Apache and MySQL. Having said this, I would appreciate if you could advice on how to go about it. -- Best regards Norbert Harms report broken links <http://www.chinabiz21.com/support/contactchinabiz21.php> ____________________________________ Team GBTX LTD Global Business Trade Exchange Limited 1801 Wing On Central Building 26 Des Voeux Road, Central, HK Tel: +852 28927618 Fax: +852 30075132 infogbtx@gmail.com http://www.chinabiz21.com