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Posted by J.O. Aho on 11/23/05 09:50
wylbur37 wrote:
> J.O. Aho wrote:
>> wylbur37 wrote:
>>
>>> After reading the descriptions of the major distro packages, I
>>> discovered a somewhat wide spread of download file sizes, from 4.5MB
>>> for Uniform Server, to 8MB for EasyPHP, to 11.5MB for phpdev, to 21MB
>>> for WAMP5, to 27MB for XAMPP, all the way to 86MB for Apache2triad.
>>> I suppose the larger packages include more applications in addition to
>>> the three main ones.
>> Not more applications, but more modules for PHP and required libraries.
>
> What does this mean? that it's a "better" or more robust version of
> PHP ?
The modules give more features for PHP, like MySQL support, which results in
that you can use the mysql_*() functions that are described in
http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.mysql.php
You have a lot other things like .Net, COM, imap, pdf and so on to add to PHP,
all of them can't be used on all OS:es that PHP can be run on, so there aren't
much point in enabling everything and not all want support for say COM or pdf,
as they don't use those modules.
The less you have, the less there is that something goes wrong, the less you
have that could have a security hole, so the less you have the more robust
version you have, but the less feature to use, so you have to decide what you
need and what you don't.
//Aho
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