PHP installation

Hi, I am trying to install PHP on my embedded board. I am pretty no sure about few things which I would like to clarify with you all.

At the movement I have thttpd web server running on my board. But it don't have PHP installed on the board. And I believe that thttpd support PHP to certain extent. And hence I installed or perhaps it was already installed.

The memory which I am left on my flash is up to 4MB. I will have to installed it within that. Is there is any compressed version of PHP available? Or if I install the full version of PHP it going to eat up my memory. Is there anything like that?

And I believe that I have to compile it before I install it onto target board. Can you please help me out in this.

Thanks a lot

ssharish

Hum. Unless there's something I'm missing, you can't install a language.

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Originally Posted by Desolation

Hum. Unless there's something I'm missing, you can't install a language.

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Well sorry i dint get you. Why is that i cant install a language. Cos i will have to build a user interface for my system which i wrote in C. So that user can operate the board through the web interface which intern call the C code.

Any idea of alternative? There should be a way that i would be able to run the PHP code on the board.

Thanks a lot again.

ssharish

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Why is that i cant install a language.

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Desolation is being pedantic :P
You cannot install PHP, but you can install a PHP interpreter, just as you cannot install C++, but you can install a C++ compiler.

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The memory which I am left on my flash is up to 4MB. I will have to installed it within that. Is there is any compressed version of PHP available? Or if I install the full version of PHP it going to eat up my memory. Is there anything like that?

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Download the source then compile with only the necessary options.

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Cos i will have to build a user interface for my system which i wrote in C. So that user can operate the board through the web interface which intern call the C code.

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Have you considered writing a CGI program in C?

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You cannot install PHP, but you can install a PHP interpreter, just as you cannot install C++, but you can install a C++ compiler.

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Well sorry, i should have put it in a proper words. But what i meant was that. And yes it should have been a PHP interpreter.

I will have a go with CGI on C?

Thanks for that

ssharish

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Originally Posted by laserlight

Desolation is being pedantic :P
You cannot install PHP, but you can install a PHP interpreter, just as you cannot install C++, but you can install a C++ compiler.

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But because the PHP interpretter is called "PHP," why couldn't you "Install PHP?" This goes beyond pedantic.

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But because the PHP interpretter is called "PHP," why couldn't you "Install PHP?" This goes beyond pedantic.

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Go ask Desolation. Personally, I usually talk about "PHP installation" and "installing PHP". You only cannot install PHP in the same way as you cannot install C++, which means that you can install C++, if your C++ compiler (or anything that can be installed, for that matter) happens to be called C++. (And it is called c++ sometimes, so...)

Considered perl? Seriously, much nicer than PHP IMO, and not bloated to hell.

No pedantic comments about my post please, I've kept my post purely demotic -- which is apparently the opposite of pedantic, learn something everyday :)

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Considered perl? Seriously, much nicer than PHP IMO, and not bloated to hell.

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Ruby (on Rails) seems to be all the rage today.