Download and install the license manager from our website. Make sure before installing that the MSI is digitally signed by 'aducom software.' All PHsPeed applications are digitally signed, so if yours is not, then you might have an illegal or cracked version. We do not provide support on non-legal versions.

If this is the first time you install the product, then the license manager will require you to create an account using a valid email address. This account is needed to inform you about new releases and refer to your product pages if you decide to buy the product. As being a Dutch (European) company, we comply with the European privacy rules. We do not keep track of your personal data. Our privacy statement can be found here.

After creating your account, you will be able to download PHsPeed. As the overall package is quite large, it is divided into chunks to allow to restart download at a given point. The download speeds might differ depending on where you live.

PHsPeed will install a custom Xampp edition that allows you to select one of the preset PHP versions, and with XDebug fully configured. It also will install MySQL/MariaDB. When you start PHsPeed, Apache and MySQL will automatically start; when you close PHsPeed, Apache and MySQL will close. 

Non-standard installs

It is possible to run PHsPeed against another webserver and database. However, if this is your first experience, we advise you to install the product standard as all our samples are built and deployed with MariaDB. But you can switch to another configuration at any time. Dependencies are that your configuration supports PHP, and if you want to be able to use the debugger, you must set up XDebug to work on your configuration. Aducom Software does not provide support for other configurations than the standard. To avoid conflicts with your current installation of Apache and/or MariaDB, the ports to use are configurable. If you do not want to use the embedded MariaDB, then you can disable it in the preferences.

Using databases

PHsPeed can be set up to be used with the most common databases. We have successfully tested MariaDB/MySQL, Oracle, Open-Edge (Progress), SQLServer, PostGres, SQLite. As most databases have many configuration options, and you can run them on Linux and Windows, we haven't got instructions for all possible situations. We test the databases on a Windows VM and make connections to the PHsPeed Xampp Apache server.

How to use PHsPeed with other databases can be found here