XML and PHP

Obtaining the Software

The first step is to make sure that you have all the software you need. Here is your shopping list:

• The most important item is, obviously, PHP itself. The PHP (version 4.1.0 or better) source code distribution is available from http://www.php.net/.

• If you intend to run PHP as an Apache module (recommended), you’ll also need the Apache web server. Apache (version 1.3.20 or better) source code is available from http://www.apache.org/.

• In order to activate PHP’s DOM and XSLT support, you also need a few external libraries:

  • The zlib library (version 1.1.3 or better) is available from http://www.gzip.org/zlib/.

  • The expat library (version 1.95.2 or better) is available from http://sourceforge.net/projects/expat/.

  • The GNOME XML library, ...