Other Help Topics :: PHP on DSL

How much space does that Xlampp whosit take up? ATM, I'm using the MonkeyWeb daemon which is doing just fine. Rather nifty, in fact. But I don't see a plugin for PHP5 for it, only PHP4. If it's got PHP5, where can I get it? Otherwise, I better look in to the lamp thing. It sounds cool, but heavy. For the project I want to play with I'll probably need apache and sql anyway.

I don't suppose there's a super lightweight SQL Server? Although, I don't actually know how much space MySQL and PostgreSQL take up. I'm really committed to the whole lean machine thing, but I'm gonna need some a this stuff for a work project.

To the guy with installation troubles, if you're running off CD, there sometimes seems to be more than one /opt, it's kinda confusing. That might be part of your problem. I had to untar the PHP4 package from the root directory, else is made extra /opt directories and other strangeness.

More info about Xampp can be found at the Xampp website It's about a 50 meg download but off hand I don't know how big it expands to.

DSL comes with a SQL engine called SQLite. More info at the SQLite website I'm not sure what version DSL has. The last time I looked it was 2.8 but that wasn't the current version of DSL. I know I remember reading somewhere that Roberts had used a PHP-SQLite interface for some script (might be the new calendar).

You can do a lot with Monkey-PHP-SQLite so you may want to pursue that if you want to stay lean and quick.

Good luck

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