If he has encrypted the php pages, then it would not be possible to edit them. Make sure you have the complete source code before saying bye! to the programmer :)
To install IIS on Windows XP, make sure you have Windows XP Pro edition. Goto
control panel -> add remove programs, select windows component.
From the list, check Internet Information Services (IIS) and click next. Make sure windows installation CD is in the CDROM.
Once you have installed IIS, goto php.net and download the binaries for windows with installer. Run the file and it will guide you through rest of the process.
There is a software called FireServ (26 MB) which comes with a Windows based installer. This software will install AMPP (Apache, MySQL, PHP & PhpMyAdmin) on your windows based machine. It has a GUI control panel to start and stop the server. Do a google search to download the file.
If you have learned any programming language like C++ or Java or a scripting language like ASP, Perl then transition to PHP will not take much time.
My first PHP book was "PHP and MySQL Web Development" by Luke Welling and Laura Thomson.
Who should read this book
This book will teach you how to create interactive Web sites from the simplest order form through to complex secure e-commerce sites. What’s more, you’ll learn how to do it using Open Source technologies. This book is aimed at readers who already know at least the basics of HTML and have done some programming in a modern programming language before, but have not necessarily programmed for the Internet or used a relational database. If you are a beginning programmer, you should still find this book useful, but it might take you a little longer to digest. We’ve tried not to leave out any basic concepts, but we do cover them at speed. The typical reader of this book is someone who wants to master PHP and MySQL for the purpose of building a large or commercial Web site. You might already be working in another Web development language; if …
Hi I am Manish, one of the administrator of PHPCommunity.com. I have been programming in C++ for 4 years, few month back I shifted my interest to PHP and have written good number of scripts ;) This place looks good. I will try my best to spend some time replying to PHP queries :)
