Originally Posted by piismyname

check out XAMPP. It is a installer that installs apache, php, mysql all at the same time, all configured to work with each other, right out of the box. it comes with several useful examples, as well as PHPMyAdmin, which makes mysql almost as point and click as Access.

Much easier than trying to configure all these things on windows from scratch.

http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html