PHP General List, First, let me say that while I have been scripting with PHP and MySQL for my web sites for a few years, I have never configured or installed either PHP or MySQL, so I should be considered a newbie for installation issues. The situation: I am running Linux on my home computer. The specific distribution is CentOS 4.1. My computer is a pentium 3 with 512 MB Ram. On the web hosting service where my web sites are hosted, they have the following versions of PHP, MySQL and phpMyAdmin: PHP Version 4.3.8 MySQL 4.1.3-beta-standard phpMyAdmin 2.5.7-pl1 What I would like to do is install versions of these applications on my machine that will be compatible with my server so that I can develop and test web sites on my home machine which will hopefully work on my host server. I know that the current latest versions of these applications are as follows: PHP 4.4.0 MySQL 4.1.14 phpMyAdmin 2.6.4 I've already spoken to my web host and they intend to upgrade to the new versions as soon as they build a compatible interface for them with their administrator control panel interface. The Questions: If I install the latest versions locally, will they be backwards compatible enough with the versions on my host server? Would it be easy enough to install the versions that my host has, and then upgrade later? Any advice would be much appreciated. Dave -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
