How to Install cURL and EasyPHP
EasyPHP is a development environment that can be run on any Windows PC with no setup at all, and cURL is a powerful command line tool for retrieving resources of almost any type from network addresses. Between the two, it's possible to create a full development and testing environment for Web applications that use PHP, Apache and MySQL. Installing them is relatively easy, if you know where to find them.
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Instructions
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EasyPHP
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Download the most recent EasyPHP installation. EasyPHP is available for Microsoft Windows exclusively.
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Install EasyPHP using the setup program you just downloaded. During installation, EasyPHP will create a subfolder inside the installation folder called "www." This is where your Web files will go, exactly the same as a "public_html" folder on a Web server.
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Run the EasyPHP program. This starts up the various components of the Web server, including Apache and the MySQL database.
cURL
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Download cURL for your operating system. If you're unsure of which files you need, click on the link marked "cURL Download Wizard." At the first screen, select "curl executable" to find installation programs.
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Extract the ZIP archive that you downloaded to the "C:\Windows\system32" folder. cURL is a program that is run from a command line, as it does not have a user interface; "system32" is a folder where your computer looks to find basic commands. By placing cURL there, you can skip having to navigate to a special directory every time you want to use it.
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Click the "Start" menu, then select the "Run..." option. Type "cmd" at the prompt and click the "OK" button. From this command line, run cURL by typing "curl your-options your-address" where "your-address" is the address of the resource you would like to access, and
"your-options" contains the output file, if you would like one.
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