Hi I have visual studio 2008, .net 3.5 and sql 2005 express installed on my workstation. My question is it wise (o.k.) to install php and mysql or, will it be troublesome?

DKB

Hi DKB,

If it's your development machine, it is definitely ok to install both platforms: .NET / IIS / MS SQL & PHP / APACHE / MySQL.

If you have already installed .NET as you said, I recommend you to use XAMPP or WAMP for PHP coz all the features are included into one package so that you won't worry about installing every instance separately and setting up the ports to run on...

One thing to note: I have installed in one of my machines both platforms, even some more scripting language platforms such as Perl and other types of languages like ProLog and Oracle 10g Express as DBMS. 90% of the time I spend working on .NET, but, when I have need to do something using PHP / MySQL / Apache, I'm stopping the IIS service by running from cmd: iisreset /stop in order to run Apache server appropriately on the same port that IIS uses.

So, shortly, I keep all services, excapt .NET ones, stopped. I start them when I need to work with them.

So, I would recommend you from my experience not to let all the instances running if you are not working on these in that point of time. So, keep .NET / IIS / MS SQL services running if you are working more with these and stop these of Apache & MySQL (will not eat memory and will not mix up with the other .NET platform services, even though you can avoid this by some manual port settings). Start the services when you will need to work with them...

Hope this helps even I have entered little out of the scop of the question,
Hajan

 Thank you Hajan your answer is much helpful I like the website of XAMPP more than I do of the WAMP, XAMPP has a page where they deal with XAMPP bugs and they seem more commited to the project by this. Although I am not sure of the matter I ask you for your opinion which of the two do you think is more commited to thier project XAMPP OR WAMP?

DKB

Hi DKB,

Well, I also think that XAMPP is better than WAMP even though WAMP has (by my opinion) better interface for Windows because it is primarly made for Windows platform.

Anyway, I have got more familiar on working with XAMPP and that's why I do prefere XAMPP.

Regarding the commitment to their projects, I have same opinion as yours, but I don't think that both of these are commited as much as Microsoft Community is commited to their projects

Best Of Regards,
Hajan

 Hajan Thank you for your input.

DKB