I am trying to install PHP, PEAR, APACHE and MySql in my windows Xp machine. Everything goes fine. I donwloaded Apache 2.0.59 and PHP 5 . I configured some file that i beleived was needed like php.ini-recomended (after changing it to php.ini in apache folder) . I copied some dls like php5apache2.dll,php.ini,php5ts.dll in apache2 folder.
But the problem is when i try to install Php PEAR. There is a batch file called go-pear.bat but its giving some kind of error. I am not sure whats going wrong. Is there any other way to install PHP , PEAR , Apache , Mysql besides PHP Triad in which i think PEAR does not works.

Any suggestions will be highly appreciated.

Thanks

Aashish Bro,,

If you r using php 5 then installing php pear would give you a lots of problem. Many extensions are not supported by php 5.i don't know why php.net people bundle many extension in php.exe file...I tried to install xml dom in php5 and never be able to do that...

Use php 4.3.2 version. I m using it for last few years and it is working fine...When i read your question i install php pear and it works fine....

Thanks as a writer. I also worked with PHP 4.4.4 which is available in php.net but there is some other problem while opening go-pear.bat. I found many thread online that says php 4.3.2 is stable and perfect. But i am not able to get a link for downloading php 4.3.2 online.
Do you have any idea from which website can i donwload that version of php.
Thanks again for your time .

You can download php4.3.2 from

http://us2.php.net/releases/index.php

download both (installer and zip) version of php. Install php with installer then copy all the files from zip file into c:\php (deafult folder).. Even installer works fine with php but if you have to use mysql,gd or xml dom u need to copy the files from unzip version

Thank You as a writer. I hope it works.

Usually, Netserver works great for me. It's a PHP-Apache-MySQL bundle. But you can try installing each of these separately as well.

Ya sangitsaukin,
As u mentioned there are few bundle software that contains PHP-APACHE-MYSQl. I never tried Netserver so i dont know about it much but I just downloaded Xampp for Windows and it worked great. I always had a problem with PHP-PEAR. So with this XAMPP i dont need to worry about it too.. So it helped me somewhat. Its really frustating to install PHP , and setting up PEAR. took long hour for me and still Bug. So i downloaded Xampp and its great, atleast made my work much easier.

I downloaded that from URL

http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-windows.html

I guess its better than PHP Triad and EasyPHP.