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Notes 3. The PHP Development Team announced the release of PHP 3.0 in
(a) April 1998 (b) August 1999
(c) June 6, 1998 (d) May 1990
4. Rasmus Lerdorf first conceived of PHP in ...............
(a) 1995 (b) 1994
(c) 1998 (d) 1993

1.3 Installing PHP

In installing PHP, we learn how to install PEAR on your platform from a PHP distribution or
through the go-pear.org website.
1.3.1 Installing with UNIX / Linux PHP Distribution

It describes PEAR installation and basic usage that is specific for UNIX or UNIX-like platforms,
such as Linux and Darwin. The installation of the PEAR Installer itself is somewhat OS-dependent,
and because most of what you need to know about installation is OS-specific, you find that here.
Using the installer is more similar on different platforms, so that is described in the next, with
the occasional note about OS idiosyncrasies.

As of PHP 4.3.0, PEAR with all its basic prerequisites is installed by default when you install PHP.
If you build PHP from source, these configure options cause problems for PEAR:
—disable-pear

make install
will neither install the PEAR installer or any packages.
—disable-cli

The PEAR Installer depends on a standalone version of
PHP installed.
—without-xml
PEAR requires the XML extension for parsing package information files.

Prepare a list of system requirement for installing PHP in PC.

1.3.2 Windows
It shows how to install PEAR on a Windows PHP installation. Start by just installing a binary
distribution of PHP. If you go with the defaults, your PHP install will end up in C:\PHP,

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