Category: Geeks r Us
I'm trying to install PHP 5.2.6 on a Windows XP system using the MSI installer, but the installer is complaining that "a script needed to complete this installation could not be run." What's wrong? I checked, and I have Windows XP SP3, which has Windows Installer 3.1 already installed, so that shouldn't be the problem. I'm running Windows XP Professional 5.1 (build: 2600 SP3). Is there anything I can do, short of getting the source code (which I don't even know if there is any for Windows) and building PHP from source (which I don't even know how to do!)? Any help would be appreciated. Just as an aside: If I do end up needing to build PHP from source, are the tools to do so free and is there a free program for extracting and uncompressing .tar.gz or .tar.bz2 files?
Seems as though PHP installed, but it always brings up lots of warnings and errors when I attempt to start it from the Run dialog. It's complaining about things like the absence of oci.dll and php_oci8.dll. Where can I find all the necessary files to get PHP to start up without all the errors? Any help would be appreciated.
Uninstall it, do a google search for xampp and just run that. It's an easy to install distribution with php, mysql, apache, and perl.