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[rdone]

Hello all...

I do have really lots problems. If you help me out and tell what should I do step by step. I am gonna be pleasure.
I bought a book that teaches php. (It is php5) It is the first time for me to learn to build a website by using php.
In this book, it is telling what should I do and giving some links to load those (apache, php, zend optimizer, MySql, phpMyAdmin) down. ano telling the configuration after downloading. But, It fails somehow. I do not know why.

Moreover, The links for programmes are not working. I am giving an example, It says load apache down by using this link (http://nagoya.apache.org/mirror/httpd/binaries/win32/) Please tell me Where Can I Load Those Down (apache, php, zend optimizer, MySql, phpMyAdmin) and I do not know what are they to be of use? Please, explain one by one these programmes (apache (Why whe should use this), php (Why whe should use this), zend optimizer (Why whe should use this), MySql (Why whe should use this), phpMyAdmin (Why whe should use this).

I am using Windows XP Professional
I am looking forward your answers
Thank You all...
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[wildteen88]

You can get Apache, PHP, MySQL and PHPMyAdmin from the following:

Apache - http://httpd.apache.org - download [url=http://www.mirror.ac.uk/mirror/ftp.apache.org/httpd/binaries/win32/apache_2.2.3-win32-x86-no_ssl.msi]apache_2.2.3-win32-x86-no_ssl.msi[/url]
PHP - http://www.php.net - download [url=http://www.php.net/get/php-5.2.0-Win32.zip/from/a/mirror]PHP 5.2.0 zip package[/url]
MySQL - http://www.mysql.com - download [url=http://dev.mysql.com/get/Downloads/MySQL-5.0/mysql-essential-5.0.27-win32.msi/from/pick]Windows Essentials (x86)[/url]
PHPMyAdmin - http://www.phpmyadmin.net - download [url=http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/phpmyadmin/phpMyAdmin-2.9.1.1-all-languages-utf-8-only.zip?download]phpMyAdmin 2.9.1.1.zip[/url]
Zend Optimizer - http://www.zend.com - download [url=http://www.zend.com/products/zend_optimizer]link[/url] - optional

I will explain each of these here:
Apache - Apache is a http web server. PHP is a server side programming language and thus you need a server installed in order for your PHP scripts to be parsed. Apache is also the most popular open source http server to be used - nearly every website on the internet uses Apache!

PHP - this is what you'll be coding in and so you'll need an interpreter to parse your PHP scripts. If you don't have this, your computer wont understand PHP code! PHP stands for PHP Hypertext Preprocessor

MySQL - this an SQL database. Databases allow you to store information on the server. This information can then be used later on. MySQL is a very common database when creating dynamic websites

phpMyAdmin - this a PHP script which allows you to manage your MySQL database from your website.

Zend Optimizer is a free application that runs the files encoded by the Zend Guard, while enhancing the performance of PHP applications.