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INSTALLING, CONFIGURING, AND DEVELOPING WITH XAMPP by Dalibor D. Dvorski, March 2007 Skill Canada – Ontario DISCLAIMER: A lot of care has been taken in the accuracy of information provided in this article however, it cannot be guaranteed that inaccuracies will not occur. The author and Skills Canada will not be held responsible for any claims or damages caused as a result of any information from this article. This article explains the installation and configuration process of the XAMPP Apache distribution and then provides a step-by-step tutorial on developing a simple address book program using the PHP programming language and MySQL database package. In order to comply with the Ontario Skills Competition this article will use the following coding standards and tools: XHTML 1.0 Transitional PHP 5.0, MySQL 5.0, and phpMyAdmin 2.9. About XAMPP and Installation Requirements XAMPP is a small and light Apache distribution containing the most common web development technologies in a single package. Its contents small size, and portability make it the ideal tool for students developing and testing applications in PHP and MySQL. XAMPP is available as a free download in two specific packages: full and lite. While the full package download provides a wide array of development tools, this article will focus on using XAMPP Lite which contains the necessary technologies that meet the Ontario Skills Competition standards. As the name implies the light version is a small package containing Apache HTTP Server PHP, MySQL phpMyAdmin Openssl, and SQLite. For more details on the packaging and versions, refer to TABLE 1 . In order to be able to successfully run XAMPP Lite you will require 17 MB for the self-extracting ZIP installation archive and at least 118 MB after it has been extracted on a local hard disk or USB drive. TABLE 1: XAMPP and XAMPP Lite feature