Donald Tyler wrote:
I am looking for a guide on compiling PHP 4. I am a complete newbie to
compiling and have no idea where to start, so any links to guides and/or
other useful info would be much appreciated.
PHP is a scripting language, no need to compile it.
If you're really new, 2 links from the PHP home page
A simple tutorial
http://www.php.net/tut.php
PHP Documentation
http://www.php.net/docs.php
If you mean compiling php itself (not a php script written in PHP),
then go read the PHP manual:
II. Installation and Configuration
http://www.php.net/manual/en/install.php
My reason is that I need MySQL 4 support,
Just check the manual. MySQL functions can be used within PHP,
with the mysql or mysqli extensions (see links below).
Under Linux, it comes in packages like mysql-server, php4, php4-mysql, etc
and you can simply install these packages.
LXX. MySQL Functions
http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.mysql.php
"In PHP 5, MySQL is no longer enabled by default, nor is the MySQL library
bundled with PHP. Read this FAQ
http://www.php.net/manual/en/faq.databases.php#faq.databases.mysql.php5
for details on why."
LXXI. Improved MySQL Extension, PHP Manual
http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.mysqli.php
"The mysqli extension allows you to access the functionality provided by MySQL 4.1
and above"
but I would like to get a
general overview of compiling a program source in general.
On Unix/Linux like systems, it's something like
$ tar xzf soft-1.0.tar.gz
$ cd soft-1.0
$ ./configure
$ make
$ su -
(to become root, if it's your box)
# make install
Christophe
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