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 Xen virtualization technology, SugarCRM and now PHP — and seems to be seeking a peaceful co-existence of its proprietary platforms with open source software.

In the process, both users and developers are getting more choices, said Gardner.

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 your source code. The converter is also suitable for producing .exe files for windowed PHP applications (created using for example the WinBinder library, or with PHP-GTK

Usage:
bamcompile [-options] infile.php [outfile.exe]
bamcompile [-options] project_directory mainfile.php [outfile.exe]

Options:
-w Hide console window for windowed applications
-c Compress output exe (using UPX - must be available)
-d Do not encode PHP files

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.

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, MyODBC, and WordPress.

Looks like this might come in handy as a reference.

BTW, fellow coders, you can find several of us down at irc.scriptschool.com #scriptschool throughout the week. Feel free to stop on by and say hello :)