I've installed WordPress 3.0.2 on my local box using MS Webmatrix (beta 3). Webmatrix tells me the site uses PHP 5.2. Now I need to install a WordPress plugin (JanRain Engage, to be precise) that requires cURL-SSL and JSON.
Before installing the plugin, how do I determine if I already have cURL-SSL and JSON? How should I go about installing them if I don't have them? Are there special instructions within a Webmatrix context?
update
What is the easiest way to run any of the suggested php code or snippets, such as phpinfo(), assuming a Webmatrix environment? I verified that I could execute a php snippet, "using" Webmatrix, by making an html file and viewing it from my web browser:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8" /><title></title>
</head>
<body>
<?php phpinfo(); ?>
</body>
</html>
It worked. But is that really the easiest way to execute a PHP function? Seems a little indirect to me.
