I’m using Windows Vista and Windows XP. Enabling cURL (Client URL Library) of PHP is really easy and is a matter of uncommenting something only.
Open your php.ini. I use XAMPP for development, XAMPP’s php.ini can be found in C:\xampp\apache\bin\php.ini. You can probably find your copy lurking around there if you use XAMPP.
Do a search of ‘curl’ in the php.ini, there’s probably only one.
Uncomment it.
My environment is Windows Vista but these instructions work for Windows XP as well.
Sometimes, we have multiple projects and we would like to access the Project 1’s website by typing ‘http://project1/’ in the browser address bar. And Project 2 may be at ‘http://project2/’. This is how we can configure Windows and Apache to do just that. While this guide is written for XAMPP’s Apache, if the instruction applies pretty much to Apache too. You can put your configuration into ‘httpd.conf’.
First go to your hosts file, it is located at C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts for most people. If you’re using Windows Vista, you need to run command prompt as administrator. Type ‘cmd’ into the search bar and right click on the ‘cmd’ search result to point to ‘Run as administrator’. (more…)
The easiest way to start developing in PHP is to get XAMPP, the whole package can even be placed in a flash drive.
To get your PHP scripts to send an email out. This guide assumes you have XAMPP or XAMPP Lite. My environment is Windows Vista. (I use XAMPP Lite by the way)
My XAMPP is placed in C:\xampp\, so your configuration may be a little different. The files to be modified are sendmail.ini and php.ini.
Your sendmail.ini should be located in C:\xampp\sendmail\sendmail.ini. You only need to be concern with 3 variables here: (more…)