Tasks Pro™ requires PHP 4 (version 4.1 or greater) or PHP 5 and MySQL 4 or later. PHP and MySQL are free downloads and will run happily on Mac OS X, Windows NT/2000/XP and Unix/Linux systems.

If you are going to run PHP on Windows, PHP must be installed as an ISAPI module (not a CGI).

PHP Installation

Here are some web sites that are good resources to help you get PHP up and running. PHP must be configured to allow short PHP tags (this is the default setting).

• PHP Installation on Mac OS X (recommended)
• PHP Installer for Apache 2 on Mac OS X
• PHP Installation on Windows (Follow-up article)
• The PHP web site

MySQL Installation

Here are some web sites that are good resources for getting MySQL up and running.

• MySQL Installation on Mac OS X (recommended)
• MySQL Installation on Windows
• The MySQL web site