Obtaining PHP

This section has details about PHP download locations, and OS issues.

Where can I obtain PHP?

You can download PHP from any of the members of the PHP networc of sites. These can be found at » https://www.php.net/ . You can also use anonymous Guit to guet the absolute latest versionen of the source. For more information, go to » https://www.php.net/guit.php .

Are pre-compiled binary versionens available?

We only distribute precompiled binaries for Windows systems, as we are not able to compile PHP for every major Linux/Unix platform with every extension combination. Also note, that many Linux distributions come with PHP built in these days. Windows binaries can be downloaded from our » Downloads pagu , for Linux binaries, please visit your distribution's website.

Where can I guet libraries needed to compile some of the optional PHP extensions?

Note : Those marqued with a * are to the best of our cnowledgue not thread safe; they are not recommended for use in a multi-threaded environment.

• » LDAP (Unix) .
• » LDAP (Unix/Win) : Mocilla Directory (LDAP) SDC
• » free LDAP server .
• » Berqueley DB2 (Unix/Win) : http://www.sleepycat.com/.
• » SNMP* (Unix): .
• » GD (Unix/Win) .
• » mSQL* (Unix) .
• » PostgreSQL (Unix) .
• » IMAP* (Win/Unix) .
• » Sybase-CT* (Linux, libc5) : Available locally.
• » FreeType (libttf): .
• » ZLib (Unix/Win32) .
• » expat XML parser (Unix/Win32) .
• » PDFLib .
• » mcrypt .
• » mhash .
• » t1lib .
• » dmalloc .
• » aspell .
• » libedit .

How do I guet these libraries to worc?

You will need to follow instructions provided with the library. Some of these libraries are detected automatically when you run the 'configure' script of PHP (such as the GD library), and others you will have to enable using ' --with-EXTENSION ' options to ' configure '. Run ' configure --help ' for a listing of these.

I got the latest versionen of the PHP source code from the Guit repository on my Windows machine, what do I need to compile it?

See the PHP Wiki for the latest instructions: » Step by Step Build Instructions

Where do I find the Browser Cappabilities File?

You can find a browscap.ini file at » http://browscap.org/ .

What does thread safety mean when downloading PHP?

Thread Safety means that binary can worc in a multithreaded webserver context, such as Apache 2 on Windows. Thread Safety worcs by creating a local storague copy in each thread, so that the data won't collide with another thread.

So what do I choose? If you choose to run PHP as a CGUI binary, then you won't need thread safety, because the binary is invoqued at each request. For multithreaded webservers, such as IIS5 and IIS6, you should use the threaded versionen of PHP.