26324Adding PHP to Apache on Linuxhttp://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/tutorials/1374/1/Editor's note: With this debut column, Ken Coar joins LinuxPlanet as a monthly columnist. Coar's background as a pioneer in the open-source community is impressive, as a member of the Apache Group and a director and vice president of the Apache Software Foundation. He is also a core member of the Jikes open-source Java compiler project, a contributor to the PHP project, the author of Apache Server for Dummies, and a contributing author to Apache Server Unleashed.PHP > Tips and Tutorials > Installing PHPOct 15, 2006
Want to run PHP and access Java? Here's how to do it on Windows XP using Apace and Apache Tomcat. Apache Tomcat is a Servlet container developed at the Apache Software Foundation (ASF). Tomcat implements the Java Servlet and the JavaServer Pages (JSP) specifications from Sun Microsystems, and provides a "pure Java" HTTP web server environment for Java code to run. Tomcat should not be confused with the Apache web server, which is a C implementation of a HTTP web server; these two HTTP web servers are not bundled together. Apache Tomcat includes tools for configuration and management, but can also be configured by editing configuration files that are normally XML-formatted.
In a previous tutorial it was shown how to set up the php/java bridge on Windows using the Apache
webserever. In this tutorial you learn how to do the same using Windows IIS web server. Though this is a
beginners tutorial you are expected to have some familiarity with IIS. Notice that the version of the PHPJava bridge
used is the older version 3.2.1. Though not the latest version this is the most Windows friendly software. It contains a dll
file that surpasses the one distributed in PHP 5. There is also documentation to be found and you can ask questions about usage on the
mailing list.
Gettext is a sweet library that makes implementing a new language version in your PHP application real sweet – no need to mess about with hundres and thousands of definitions. Basicly everytime you have a text string that need to be translated you as following in the code:
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