This folder contains the PHP equivalents of the Java examples in the book:
 Foundations of Ajax

If you do not have a PHP environment installed, then download the XAMPP package
from http://www.xampp.org 
XAMPP is available for most operating systems and it is very easy to install.

* Start the XAMPP environment (in windows) by clicking on xampp_start.exe, found
in your XAMPP install folder.
* Stop it by clicking on xampp_stop.exe

Note that it is also possible to install Apache and/or MySQL as a service on windows, but for 
casual usage you may not want to do this.
 
Copy this examples folder to ../xampp/htdocs/ or wherever your document root happens to be. 

Point your browser to http://localhost/ajax-examples/ and click on the various chapters to go 
to the index of the examples in that chapter.

If you want to get rid of XAMPP, just delete the install directory, 
there are no Windos registry entries (unless you installed any component as a service).