AVAS Technology Blog

Installing Common PHP Extensions
By: System Admin 11/02/2012

PHP is a simpler programming language which offers the power of the more complex object orientated languages without some of the more complex data management issues. PHP is commonly used to develop dynamic web content, especially content based upon a database like MySQL. PHP is an on-demand compiled language, where it uses the Apache2 web server to compile the PHP code when the script is run. In a practical sense, you must have Apache installed to use PHP on your server. If you do not have Apache currently installed, instructions can be found here. Instructions for installing PHP after you have installed Apache can be found here.

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