Installing PHP on OS 10.3.9 - any advice for unix novice??

Not sure if this is the right forum, but here goes...
I am trying to get PHP set up on my mac, but I have gotten a bit stuck. I think I have sucessfully downloaded and installed MySQL, but I am very confused about the best way to install the necessary version of PHP. Many how to and tutorial sites (and the visual quickstart book i checked out fromt he library) recommend using Mark Liyanage's installer at http://www.entropy.ch/software/macosx/php/.. However, it seems that he is no longer providing support for Panther. The Visual Quickstart Guide has a graphic with a screen shot of Mark's site from a while ago, and it looks like once upon a time there was a PHP 5.0.0 for apache 1.3 installer designed for Panther, but now the options are different.
So, feeling confused about all of this, I decided to try to see if I already had PHP installed, and if so what version - I have heard that PHP is preinstalled with apache on some macs. So, I decided to try running the phpinfo.php script in my browser (http://localhost/phpinfo.php), but instead of running the script, the browser just displays the script [
<?php
phpinfo();
?>
]. I have also read that you can change some code in a file called httpd.conf file, but as I am a total Unix novice and not very familiar with using terminal, I have been very leary of this.
If anyone has advice or resources, I would be eternally grateful!!
Many thanks in advance,
Lauren
PowerBook G4 Mac OS X (10.3.9)

I'm afraid that you will keep running into roadblocks without learning the CLI. Mac OS X Unix Tutorial is a good starting point. Open the Terminal.app and type the following command:
php -i
Learn how to use Pico a simple unix text editor, so you can edit configuration files.
Instead of installing pre-compiled binaries you might consider using fink to compile binaries from source code.

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