WAMP Development Tutorial

Required Downloads

The following is a list of the requirements for installing your system. 98% of all software we will discuss will be Open Source (free). Please support Open Source

You should download these files and store them on your system in a place easy to find later. Once you have all these programs you are ready for the next step. This document will assume you have a c:\disks\ directory and create a new directory for each download ex: c:\disks\mysql\, c:\disks\php\, etc..

MySQL

Site: http://www.mysql.com/
Documentation: http://www.mysql.com/doc/en/index.html
Download: http://www.mysql.com/downloads/index.html (Production release)

The MySQL database server is the world's most popular open source database. Its architecture makes it extremely fast and easy to customize. Extensive reuse of code within the software and a minimalistic approach to producing functionally-rich features has resulted in a database management system unmatched in speed, compactness, stability and ease of deployment. The unique separation of the core server from the table handler makes it possible to run with strict transaction control or with ultra-fast transactionless disk access, whichever is most appropriate for the situation.

PHP

Site: http://www.php.net/
Documentation: http://www.php.net/manual/en/
Download: http://www.php.net/downloads.php (Latest stable version of PHP - Windows Binaries - Zip version not installer Example: PHP 4.3.2 zip package)

PHP is an HTML-embedded scripting language. Much of its syntax is borrowed from C, Java and Perl with a couple of unique PHP-specific features thrown in. The goal of the language is to allow web developers to write dynamically generated pages quickly.

Apache

Site: http://httpd.apache.org/
Documentation: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/
Download: http://httpd.apache.org/download.cgi (Latest version of Apache Windows Version 1.3.xx - Win32 Binary (MSI Installer) EX: Apache 1.3.28)

The Apache HTTP Server Project is an effort to develop and maintain an open-source HTTP server for modern operating systems including UNIX and Windows NT. The goal of this project is to provide a secure, efficient and extensible server that provides HTTP services in sync with the current HTTP standards.

Apache has been the most popular web server on the Internet since April of 1996. The July 2003 Netcraft Web Server Survey found that 63% of the web sites on the Internet are using Apache, thus making it more widely used than all other web servers combined.

phpMyAdmin

Site: http://www.phpmyadmin.net
Download: http://www.phpmyadmin.net (Downloads Section)

phpMyAdmin is a tool written in PHP intended to handle the administration of MySQL over the WWW. Currently it can create and drop databases, create/drop/alter tables, delete/edit/add fields, execute any SQL statement, manage keys on fields.

Optional Downloads

The following is a list of the optional conponents for your system.

Zend Optimizer

Site: http://www.zend.com/store/products/zend-optimizer.php
Download: http://www.zend.com/store/products/zend-optimizer.php (Free Download)

The Zend Optimizer is a free application that runs the files encoded by the Zend Encoder and Zend SafeGuard Suite, while enhancing the running speed of PHP applications.