%general-entities; ]> PHP is the PHP Hypertext Preprocessor. Primarily used in dynamic web sites, it allows for programming code to be directly embedded into the HTML markup. Download (HTTP): Download (FTP): Download size: &php-size; Estimated Disk space required: &php-buildsize; Estimated build time: &php-time; and , , , , , , , , MTA, , , , , and Install PHP by running the following commands: ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc \ --with-apxs2 --with-config-file-path=/etc \ --with-zlib --with-bz2 --enable-ftp --with-gettext \ --with-iconv --with-mysql=/usr --with-ncurses && make && make install && cp php.ini-recommended /etc/php.ini PHP has many more configure options that will enable support for certain things. You can use ./configure --help to see a full list of the available options. Also, use of the PHP web site is highly recommended, as their online docs are very good. /etc/php.ini, /etc/pear.conf To enable PHP support in the Apache web server, a new AddType directive must be added to the httpd.conf file: AddType application/x-httpd-php .php Also, it can be useful to add an entry for index.php to the DirectoryIndex directive of the httpd.conf file. The PHP package contains pear, php, php-config, phpextdist and phpize. php is a command line interface that enables you to parse and execute PHP code.