PHP Turbine 7 Installation
Windows PHP

 

Installing the PHP Turbine extension into PHP

This step is performed by during the installation. If by any reason you need to do it again, please run the rtinstall.exe on your Turbine installation directory.

After a correct runtime installation, please proceed to the Samples Installation, so that the included samples can be available from web server.
Note: If you had a previous version of PHP Turbine installed, you'll possibly need to restart the Web Server or reboot your machine.

 

Installation of the Samples

To make the Turbine samples available on your web server you need to create a Virtual Directory (also known as web-sharing a directory) pointing to the disk location of the PHP Turbine samples.
These sections will describe installation on the IIS Web Server - for other web servers, please check their respective manual on how to web-share directories.
To make the samples web-available on Windows 2000 or Windows XP, please follow these simple steps:

1) On Windows 2000, open Programs, then open Administrative Tools, select Internet Services Manager.
On Windows XP, make sure you installed "Internet Information Services (IIS)" which includes the IIS web server - you can install it at the Control Panel, "Add or Remove Programs", "Add/Remove Windows Components", check "Internet Information Services (IIS)". Once available, open Control Panel, then "Administrative Tools", then select "Internet Information Services". On both cases a window similar to the following will appear:

 
2) To install the samples on a new virtual directory, (this is the probably the best thing to do if you're installing for the first time), please select your Web Server, then select Default Web Site, right-click on it and choose New Virtual Directory. 

3) A Wizard will appear asking you for the alias you will be using for the new Virtual Directory (remember, you will later access the samples by an URL like http//server/alias, where alias is the name you are defining now).

4) Next, the wizard will ask you for a disk location, which is the Turbine installation directory you previously choose during installation. 
The last dialog of the wizard will ask you upon the access permissions - you should check:

  • Allow Read Access 
  • Allow Script Access
  • Allow Directory Browsing (for ease of use)

You will see a dialog similar to:

Then proceed and click on the the Finish button to end this step. 

5) You can now proceed to the Testing the Installation section!

Testing the Installation

To test the PHP Turbine 7 installation, open a web browser (you must have the Flash plug-in installed) and enter the URL:

    http://server/phpturbine/readme.htm
where server is the machine to where you installed Turbine (possibly 127.0.0.1 - the localhost machine), and phpturbine is the Virtual Directory you've created previously.
An HTML page should appear, scroll to the end and click Samples.
The Samples page will appear - select the Hello Worlds Sample.
- now type in your name on one of the available input fields.  
- after you click on submit you should see a scrolling marquee saying "Hello name!", where name is the name you previously typed.
You can check more info on Turbine plug-in by looking at the output of the phpinfo() command.
If you successfully completed these steps your installation is correct and you may proceed on your meeting with PHP Turbine 7 - Enjoy!

Else, if you could not complete some of the above steps please review and then repeat your installation as explained above.

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