apache and php, please help

[nik2]

hello friends, can someone explain me why I had to add these 3 lines to make them work together

 

LoadModule php5_module "C:\Program Files (x86)\PHP\php5apache2_2.dll"
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps 

 

I want to know what does each line do and why it helps apache to use PHP, i find it interesting

 

thanks in advance

[Gighalen]

All this is doing is loading .dll file to apache so apache knows how to interpret PHP, and the AddType lines are just telling Apache that it knows how to interpret those filetypes.