installation of php 5.3.27 with apache 2.4.4

[amit.chaudhari.71]

i have download php 5.3.27 windows installer from php.net
then i download apache 2.4.4 windows installer from apache site.
now i have successfuly installed apache 2.4.4. to check this i have writehttp://localhost/ on the address bar and the out put is "its work".
now the step to install php 5.3.27
now i restart my pc.

[amit.chaudhari.71]

create a file named info.php
saved it in location :-

"C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Apache2.4\htdocs\"
now i call this file bye localhost/info.php :-> output is its asking to save/open the file.
to resolve it i have added following lines at the end of httpd.config

LoadModule php5_module "C:/Program Files/php/php5apache2_4.dll"

LoadFile "C:/php/php5ts.dll"

LoadFile "C:/Program Files/php/php5.dll"

AddHandler application/x-httpd-php .php
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php3
<FilesMatch .php$>

>      SetHandler application/x-httpd-php

</FilesMatch>

configure the path to php.ini

PHPIniDir "C:/php"

then restart the pc ,but its give same output.
one more thing i want to say that if i open any lines (mantion above) leaded by #. the apache server will not restart. i want help to resolve this problem. kindly some body help me

[amit.chaudhari.71]

the close lines are
LoadModule php5_module "C:/Program Files/php/php5apache2_4.dll"
LoadFile "C:/php/php5ts.dll"
configure the path to php.ini
PHPIniDir "C:/php"

[amit.chaudhari.71]

i want help to resolve this problem. kindly some body help me

[veedeoo]

Stay away from all these troubles.. install an XAMPP or equivalent. 5.3.27 php version is pretty old. Use the latest or at least 5.5.1. The current stable release version as of today is 5.5.3

If you will running an application that is not version 5.5.3 capable, stay with the 5.3.27.

regular MySQL queries are no longer supported in 5.5.3 ., If you run an older script in this environment you will end up getting a mysql support has been deprecated.

PHP 5.5.3 allows you to take your application to the latest advancement in PHP including a much better password hasher.

If you don't like XAMPP there is also a BITNAMI WAMP Stack bundled with phpMyAdmin, SQLite, Varnish, ImageMagick, ModSecurity, XDebug, Xcache, OAuth, Memcache, FastCGI, APC, GD, OpenSSL, CURL, openLDAP, PEAR, PECL, AND most importantly, it comes with Zend Framework, CodeIgniter, Symfony, Laravel, smarty and many others. I am currently using Bitnami Python in parallel with the XAMPP..

I like xampp, because it comes with mercury mail and tomcat for my JAVA servelets projects.