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Getting Up and Running
Figure 1-3
Now that you’ve cd’dtothephp-5.0.0RC1 folder, you’ll see quite a few folders and files there. Open
the INSTALL text file (see Figure 1-6) to find many of the instructions related to your installation.
Folder and directory are equivalent terms and can be used interchangeably.
For this book, PHP is installed as a Dynamic Shared Object (DSO), and that’s what you’ll also do, so that
the entire Apache Server won’t need to be recompiled.
The latest versions of Apache support DSOs, and shared objects can be used by other programs, such as
PostGreSQL. Although you could compile PHP5 as a static module, that isn’t recommended. If PHP is
statically linked to, say, Apache or PostGreSQL, each of those programs would need to be recompiled
before they would recognize PHP. The programs’ configuration files can be easily changed in shared
objects (DSOs) without any recompiling.
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