Appendix D. Installing and Running PHP
In keeping with our assertion that Scriptaculous and Prototype can play well with a range of server-side technologies, we’ve developed the examples for this book in more than one server-side language. In appendix C you saw how to set up Apache Tomcat to run the Java-based examples. In this appendix, we’ll look at installing PHP, the server language we used to build the back end for our QuickGallery applications in chapters 2–4 and 12.
PHP is a general-purpose scripting language originally designed to run on Unix-based systems, although it can now run on Windows too. It is probably the most commonly used scripting language on the Web, and certainly most Unix-based ISPs and web-hosting solutions will offer ...
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