August 31, 2010
I thought PHP was an opensource coding language?
I’m confused. On some places it says that php can only be installed on linux servers, not windows.
But, if that is true, how can scripts witten in PHP then be used on windows servers?
I don’t understand…
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PHP is for Linux and Windows, and PHP scripts can be run on any machine that has a PHP interpreter installed. Whatever you heard about PHP not being able to be run on Windows isn’t true.
To the comment below this one: Incorrect. PHP and Apache are also available for Windows. Check out one of the *AMP bundles, such as XAMPP, or download the components standalone and install them yourself.
PHP works on Windows Server Operating Systems using Internet Information Services (IIS) and Linux Operating Systems running Apache Server.
That’s interesting. I just opened a Terminal.app window on my Mac on typed
php –version
and received the following output:
PHP 5.3.1 (cli) (built: Jan 31, 2010 15:34:19)
Copyright (c) 1997-2009 The PHP Group
Zend Engine v2.3.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2009 Zend Technologies
Windows can run php, apache etc the same as linux.
http://wampserver.com http://www.apachefriends.org/en/index.html
Just to clarify:
PHP runs on Apache servers, which are cross-platform (Windows and Linux)
IIS is a Windows-only server that runs ASP (Microsoft’s Server-Side language)
PHP can run on windows.
First of all you are confusing ‘open source’ with ‘platform independent’. There are lots and lots of open source programs, that only work on Linux or only on Windows or some other operating system. In general it is not that easy to make software platform independent, because distinct operating systems simply work very differently.
Secondly there is a PHP version for Windows: http://windows.php.net/download/ – and as you will notice: you can also download the source code (and _this_ is what open source is all about!).