Simon Willison’s Weblog

A PHP Installer

24th March 2003

Wez Furlong is working on a generic PHP installation script. If he finds a nice solution to the safe_mode and open_basedir restrictions mentioned in his post this could be a hugely useful tool for the PHP community.

Posted 24th March 2003 at 1:54 pm · Follow me on Mastodon, Bluesky, Twitter or subscribe to my newsletter

More recent articles

My review of Claude's new Code Interpreter, released under a very confusing name - 9th September 2025
Recreating the Apollo AI adoption rate chart with GPT-5, Python and Pyodide - 9th September 2025
GPT-5 Thinking in ChatGPT (aka Research Goblin) is shockingly good at search - 6th September 2025

This is A PHP Installer by Simon Willison, posted on 24th March 2003.

Next: Useful mySQL articles

Previous: The goodness of binary search

Monthly briefing

Sponsor me for $10/month and get a curated email digest of the month's most important LLM developments.

Pay me to send you less!

Sponsor & subscribe

Previously hosted at http://simon.incutio.com/archive/2003/03/24/aPHPInstaller