NEWBIE: stand-alone 1

[TheConeHead]

can I run php/mySQL on a machine as a stand-alone? if so, where do I download the software to do such

 

[sleipnir214]

as a stand-alone"?


The standard places for downloading PHP and MySQL are

http://www.php.net

and htttp://

http://www.mysql.com,

respectively.


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[BitFuzzy]

sure you can.

all you need is PHP and Mysql configured and installed

You're going to be setting up your scripts like you would a bash script.

a simple example of a stand alone PHP script

#!/usr/bin/php
<?
// Date formatting
// Month Types: M = May m = 05
// Day Types: D = Tue d = 02
// Year Types: Y = 2004 y = 04

function formatDate($val)
{
$date = date("M-Y"); // Put layout requirements here
return $date;
}
$date = formatDate('timestamp');
echo "$date \n";
?>

copy the above into a file making sure that
#!/usr/bin/php // is on line 1

chmod 777 the file
then type the file name and you should get Nov-2004

It runs the same as it would in apache with a few differences.

 

[TheConeHead]

Any guidance as to what I need to download if I simply want it to work on my machine?

 

[BitFuzzy]

all you need is mysql and php

"
The standard places for downloading PHP and MySQL are

http://www.php.net

and htttp://

http://www.mysql.com,

respectively.
"