Application server help!!

[longsdale]

Hi,
I'm new and pratising with PHP and dreamweaver. I have installed IIS
webserver and want to use PHP in DMW which says i have to install MySql (ok
done). Also install an application server but i keep getting directed to
[url]http://www.php.net/downloads.php[/url] which is just for installing PHP 4/5. Can
anyone really help about where and how to install the necessary app server
please!!???
Regards, Ian B

[Nancy Gill]

PHP 4 or 5 IS the application server. You can install it to run with IIS or
with Apache .. you will note the downloads are different depending on your
server.

Also .. DMX 2004 doesn't support PHP5 .. so you should use PHP4.11 (I think
that was the last one) and most hosts don't support PHP5 yet either. DMX
2004 was out before PHP5 was finalized.


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"longsdale" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
> I'm new and pratising with PHP and dreamweaver. I have installed IIS
> webserver and want to use PHP in DMW which says i have to install MySql

(ok

> done). Also install an application server but i keep getting directed to
> [url]http://www.php.net/downloads.php[/url] which is just for installing PHP 4/5. Can
> anyone really help about where and how to install the necessary app server
> please!!???
> Regards, Ian B
>

[Michael Fesser]

.oO(Nancy Gill)

>PHP 4 or 5 IS the application server.

PHP is just a script compiler/interpreter. An application server is
something different.

Micha

[Nancy Gill]

> PHP is just a script compiler/interpreter. An application server is

> something different.

Perhaps "server model" would have been more accurate. Anyway, the OP
couldn't figure out why they needed PHP .. which I can assure you, they do.


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Technical Editor: DMX 2004: The Complete Reference, DMX 2004: A Beginner's
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[Michael Fesser]

.oO(Nancy Gill)

>> PHP is just a script compiler/interpreter. An application server is
>> something different.

>
>Perhaps "server model" would have been more accurate.

I think so. ;)

An application server is much more than just a webserver with a script
interpreter. But I was just nitpicking ...

Micha

[Alexandru COSTIN]

I'm with Nancy on this one - I build web applications with PHP - so PHP
is a perfect application server.

Naturlich, PHP is not a server, it's actually a scripting language
executed by the web server - but anyway this whole "application server
thing" is overrated. As long as I can build applications, this should be
enough :)

Alexandru

Michael Fesser wrote:

> .oO(Nancy Gill)
>
>

>>>PHP is just a script compiler/interpreter. An application server is
>>>something different.

>>
>>Perhaps "server model" would have been more accurate.

>
>
> I think so. ;)
>
> An application server is much more than just a webserver with a script
> interpreter. But I was just nitpicking ...
>
> Micha

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