Re: FN-FORUM: windows xp compatability with ASP or PHP

date posted 5th August 2005 13:56


i bought a laptop on Ebay running XP Pro

any recommendations on simple PHP / MySQL programming - i know that
that is an incredible simplification -


thanks all

John




On 5 Aug 2005, at 10:48, Julian Voelcker wrote:

>
> Hi Jd,
>
>> I am looking on Ebay - should i look for XP Pro
>
> XP Home doesn't include the IIS web server software that is used for
> ASP/ASP.Net testing. You can by all means write ASP and ASP.Net apps
> on the machine, but not test it.
>
> Ideally you should go for XP Pro with the IIS web server software which
> is also handy for running PHP stuff on as well.
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