Playing with PHP
Jan 30th, 2005 by Karen
Playing with PHP
Thursday and Friday this week I started working on writing my first
project in PHP. Normaly, I code in ASP, but circumstances have dictated
that now I start exploring PHP. The project I am doing isn't just a
plain old PHP project though. It is a project using PHP and XML. I've
played with PHP before and got it working on my Windows IIS webserver
with relative ease. The problem is that this project uses several PHP
extensions in particular the XMLPRC extension the DOMXML extension, and
the XSLT functions. Two of these three I seem to have working but the
XSLT functions are giving me the worse time. To do transformation in
PHP you need the Saboltron to do the transformations and the expat XML
parser. For some reason I can't seem to get these properly installed
and working. It is very frustrating because I have code all written
that I want to test.
So I am taking a break this weekend and probably Monday before I
attack this again. However, my frustrations did yield a couple of
helpful PHP websites I want to share. One is a tutorial on how to install PHP 5 on a Windows machine (IIS is not used instead the author shows you how to configure an Apache webserver). Another neat site I found talks about how to use XSLT in PHP.
This also gives some instructions on how to get the XSLT module
installed on Windows even if you are using IIS. I will probably start
from scratch again trying to get this to work on Tuesday. We will see
how I fair trying to work this out next week.
