PHP: Hello World!

After unsuccessfully trying to convince my ISP to add PHP and MySQL to their service, I decided to install both on my development server at work.

I soon discovered MySQL had already been installed with super-tight security. I hacked at it for 2 hours, trying to figure out how it had been set up, to no avail.

Then I remembered Michelle posting something about PHP a few days ago. I went back to her site and voilà: PHPTriad.

PHPTriad is a compilation of Apache, MySQL and PHP for WIN32 systems. The installation went fine, but I had to copy some files around before everything would work properly. After about 10 minutes, I was up and running my first PHP scripts.

So, after a slow start, everything seems to be going great!