Database backed web application development environment for Windows

Apache, PHP4 and MySQL are open source technologies that allow you to create powerful and fast database-generated web site applications. Apache is the most popular web server. PHP has the unique distinction of being an open-source server-side scripting language that's both fun and easy to learn. Today, increasing number of web developers are using PHP as a server side scripting language. Unlike Microsoft ASP scripting language it is available on both UNIX and windows platforms. MySQL is a fast, reliable, open-source database management system. This three open-source software has very respectable position among Linux/UNIX web developers. Web developers using Windows O/S machines are not using this open source tools, simply because they feel that these tools are too difficult to install and set up. This article makes it easy.