It's a little odd, because the book had me ie install phpMyAdmin after learning a bit about php.
First it had me install Apache, but didn't tell me what to enter for a network domain or server name, but had an example picture that I basically copied.
Then I installed php, and had it configure to Apache.
Next,it had me install MySQL, and "configure the server now."
Then it had me get a php connector (which wasn't even on the mysql site anymore; I had to find it...) Then it told me to add extensionns for the two dll that were the connector (libmysql.dll and php_mysql.dll) and had me place a copy of libmysql.dll into the system32 folder.
Then it went into a few chapters of php, and then started with mySQL and told me to get phpMyAdmin.