Archived: MySQL 5.0 Download, Installation and Start

This section describes how to download, install and start MySQL server on Windows systems.

MySQL is an open source database management system developed by MySQL AB, http://www.mysql.com. You can download a copy and install it on your local Windows system very easily. Here is what I did to download and install MySQL 5.0 Community Server on my Windows system:

To start the MySQL server, you can run the "mysqld" program in a command window as shown in the following tutorial:

C:\herong> \local\mysql\bin\mysqld

"mysqld" will run quietly without printing any message in you command window. So you will see nothing after entering the "mysqld" command. You should trust "mysqld" and believe that MySQL server is running ok on your local computer now.

Another way to start the MySQL server is double-click \mysql\bin\mysqld.exe on your file explorer window.

Table of Contents

 About This Book

 PHP Installation on Windows Systems

 Integrating PHP with Apache Web Server

 charset="*" - Encodings on Chinese Web Pages

 Chinese Characters in PHP String Literals

 Multibyte String Functions in UTF-8 Encoding

 Input Text Data from Web Forms

 Input Chinese Text Data from Web Forms

 MySQL - Installation on Windows

 MySQL - Connecting PHP to Database

 MySQL - Character Set and Encoding

 MySQL - Sending Non-ASCII Text to MySQL

 Retrieving Chinese Text from Database to Web Pages

 Input Chinese Text Data to MySQL Database

 Chinese Text Encoding Conversion and Corruptions

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 Archived: Download and Install PHP 5.2.2 on Windows

 Archived: Downloading Apache 2.2.4 Binary for Windows

 Archived: Installing Apache 2.2.4 on Windows Systems

Archived: MySQL 5.0 Download, Installation and Start

 Archived: php_mysql.dll - Configuring PHP to Use MySQL Extension

 Archived: Commonly Used php_mysql.dll Functions

 Archived: mysql_connect() - Creating MySQL Connections

 Archived: Character Set Variables on MySQL 5

 Archived: Non-ASCII Test Analysis on MySQL 5

 Archived: Fetching Non-ASCII Text from MySQL 5

 Archived: Sending Text in Latin1 Encoding to MySQL 5

 Archived: Sending Text in UTF8 Encoding to MySQL 5

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