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 <title>Obtaining PHP</title>
  <titleabbrev>Obtaining PHP</titleabbrev>

   <para>
    This section has details about PHP download locations, and
    OS issues.
   </para>

  <qandaset>
   <qandaentry xml:id="faq.obtaining.where">
    <question>
     <para>Where can I obtain PHP?</para>
    </question>
    <answer>
     <para>
      You can download PHP from any of the members of the
      PHP network of sites. These can be found at 
      <link xlink:href="&url.php;">&url.php;</link>.
      You can also use anonymous SVN to get the absolute latest
      version of the source. For more information, go to 
      <link xlink:href="&url.php.anonsvn;">&url.php.anonsvn;</link>.
     </para>
    </answer>
   </qandaentry>

   <qandaentry xml:id="faq.obtaining.precompiled">
    <question>
     <para>Are pre-compiled binary versions available?</para>
    </question>
    <answer>
     <para>
      We only distribute precompiled binaries for Windows systems,
      as we are not able to compile PHP for every major Linux/Unix
      platform with every extension combination. Also note, that
      many Linux distributions come with PHP built in these days.
      Windows binaries can be downloaded from our <link
      xlink:href="&url.php.downloads;">Downloads</link> page, for Linux
      binaries, please visit your distribution's website.
     </para>
    </answer>
   </qandaentry>

   <qandaentry xml:id="faq.obtaining.optional">
    <question>
     <para>
      Where can I get libraries needed to compile some of
      the optional PHP extensions?
     </para>
    </question>
    <answer>
     <para>
      <note>
       <simpara>
        Those marked with * are not thread-safe libraries, and
        should not be used with PHP as a server module in the multi-threaded
        Windows web servers (IIS, Netscape). This does not matter in Unix
        environments, yet.
       </simpara>
      </note>
     </para>
     <para>
      <itemizedlist>
       <listitem>
        <simpara>
         <link xlink:href="&url.ldap.openldap.source;">LDAP (Unix)</link>.
        </simpara>
       </listitem>
       <listitem>
        <simpara>
         <link xlink:href="&url.ldap.netscape.sdk;">LDAP (Unix/Win)</link> : 
         Mozilla Directory (LDAP) SDK
        </simpara>
       </listitem>
       <listitem>
        <simpara>
         <link xlink:href="&url.ldap.bind9;">free LDAP server</link>.
        </simpara>
       </listitem>
       <listitem>
        <simpara>
         <link xlink:href="&url.sleepycat;">Berkeley DB2 (Unix/Win)</link> :
         &url.sleepycat;.
        </simpara>
       </listitem>
       <listitem>
        <simpara>
         <link xlink:href="&url.net-snmp;">SNMP* (Unix): </link>.
        </simpara>
       </listitem>
       <listitem>
        <simpara>
         <link xlink:href="&url.gd;">GD* (Unix/Win)</link>.
        </simpara>
       </listitem>
       <listitem>
        <simpara>
         <link xlink:href="&url.msql;">mSQL* (Unix)</link>.
        </simpara>
       </listitem>
       <listitem>
        <simpara>
         <link xlink:href="&url.pgsql;">PostgreSQL (Unix)</link>.
        </simpara>
       </listitem>
       <listitem>
        <simpara>
         <link xlink:href="&url.imap;">IMAP* (Win/Unix)</link>.
        </simpara>
       </listitem>
       <listitem>
        <simpara>
         <link xlink:href="&url.sybase;">Sybase-CT* (Linux, libc5)</link> : 
         Available locally.
        </simpara>
       </listitem>
       <listitem>
        <simpara>
         <link xlink:href="&url.freetype;">FreeType (libttf):</link>.
        </simpara>
       </listitem>
       <listitem>
        <simpara>
         <link xlink:href="&url.zlib;">ZLib (Unix/Win32)</link>.
        </simpara>
       </listitem>
       <listitem>
        <simpara>
         <link xlink:href="&url.expat;">expat XML parser (Unix/Win32)</link>.
        </simpara>
       </listitem>
       <listitem>
        <simpara>
         <link xlink:href="&url.pdf;">PDFLib</link>.
        </simpara>
       </listitem>
       <listitem>
        <simpara>
         <link xlink:href="&url.mcrypt;">mcrypt</link>.
        </simpara>
       </listitem>
       <listitem>
        <simpara>
         <link xlink:href="&url.mhash;">mhash</link>.
        </simpara>
       </listitem>
       <listitem>
        <simpara>
         <link xlink:href="&url.t1lib;">t1lib</link>.
        </simpara>
       </listitem>
       <listitem>
        <simpara>
         <link xlink:href="&url.dmalloc;">dmalloc</link>.
        </simpara>
       </listitem>
       <listitem>
        <simpara>
         <link xlink:href="&url.aspell;">aspell</link>.
        </simpara>
       </listitem>
       <listitem>
        <simpara>
         <link xlink:href="&url.readline;">readline</link>.
        </simpara>
       </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
     </para>
    </answer>
   </qandaentry>
  
   <qandaentry xml:id="faq.obtaining.how">
    <question>
     <para>How do I get these libraries to work?</para>
    </question>
    <answer>
     <para>
      You will need to follow instructions provided with the library. Some of
      these libraries are detected automatically when you run the 'configure'
      script of PHP (such as the GD library), and others you will have to
      enable using '<literal>--with-EXTENSION</literal>' options to 
      '<literal>configure</literal>'. Run 
      '<literal>configure --help</literal>' for a listing of these.     
     </para>
    </answer>
   </qandaentry>
   <qandaentry xml:id="faq.obtaining.compileNT">
    <question>
     <para>
      I got the latest version of the PHP source code from the SVN
      repository on my Windows machine, what do I need to compile it?
     </para>
    </question>
    <answer>
     <para>
      See the manual section about
      <link linkend="install.windows.building">building PHP from
      source on Windows</link>.
    </para>
    </answer>
   </qandaentry>
   <qandaentry xml:id="faq.obtaining.browscap">
    <question>
     <para>Where do I find the Browser Capabilities File?</para>
    </question>
    <answer>
     <para>
      You can find a <filename>browscap.ini</filename> file at 
      <link xlink:href="&url.browscap.download;">&url.browscap.download;</link>.
     </para>
    </answer>
   </qandaentry>
  </qandaset>
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