Windows Archives

Microsoft to work with Zend on Windows PHP runtime

Good news for PHP developers on the Windows front.
Technewsworld:
The collaboration should improve the experience of PHP-with-Windows users, according to Zend co-founder and CTO Andi Gutmans, who indicated that a majority of PHP developers work on Windows, though until now the solution has been tuned mainly for Linux.
Microsoft has embraced more open source solutions — including […]

Free command line PHP to EXE converter for Windows

Bambalam PHP EXE Compiler/Embedder:
a free command line tool to convert PHP applications to standalone Windows .exe applications. The exe files produced are totally standalone, no need for php dlls etc. The php code is encoded using the Turck MMCache Encode library so it’s a perfect solution if you want to distribute your application while protecting […]

How to get the IP address on local Windows Machine

Step by step instructions:
1. Navigate to START - > RUN
2. Launch the command window by typing:
cmd
3. Type:
ipconfig /all
4. The IP address for the machine will show in the “Connection” section next to: IP Address.

Apache, PHP, JSP and MySQL on Windows XP / 2000

My friend, Lestat, and I were talking earlier today about PHP and Windows earlier today and tonight in my PHP stream I noticed the following article from mpcon.org:
This is a quick guide to install and configure the Apache web-server with PHP and JSP support on a Windows XP Pro SP2 machine. I also included PHPMyAdmin, […]

Freeware PHP Editor: PSPad

Though the name might sound like something for a popular gaming handheld, PSPad is actually a pretty decent freeware application for editing PHP scripts in Windows.