I've just now had a web site dumped on me by a client whose hosting service, a small reseller, had trashed her site after an argument about a questionable invoice. After much back and forth argument I was finally able, yesterday, to get ftp access and download the entire site. It was running perfectly on ISP's server when I checked before downloading the root and all it's sub-folders and files.

The web requires php, but far as I can tell there are no databases. I expected, hoped, that it would run from localhost out of the box so to speak, but it does not. I am set up for php, but I do not have mysql installed. I'd like to see the thing running on my local machine before I try setting the client up with a new ISP, but I am not familiar enough with the ins and outs of php to start troubleshooting here at my end, Perhaps someone here can suggest an approach. Grateful for any ideas.