note 51332 deleted from tutorial by philip

Note Submitter: Rex Karz, rexkarz00 at yahoo dot com ---- For Windows users, the simplest way of getting all the parts required for PHP development installed on a Windows box is to use the XAMPP package at www.apachefriends.org. The package contains Apache, PHP, MySQL, Perl, and a bunch of other thingies that make developing on a Windows host bearable, especially where the target host of one's efforts is a Unix host. An especially good characteristic of XAMPP's installation is that it makes no alterations to the Windows registry. Removing it is a matter of removing the directory containing XAMPP. XAMPP is fully functional after installation. A user of XAMPP need not make any configuration changes at all. On my box, I made a single change to the httpd.conf file to add a [directory] block defining an additional directory accessable to Apache. [disclaimer: I have no interest in the XAMPP project other than as a satisfied user].