In order to quickly shift between PHP versions here is my setup.
1) In your "bin" folder create a phpXXX folder (with XXX being the PHP version).
Example: E:\apache2\bin\php442
2) Copy the following 17 files, from your PHP version, to your phpXXX folder:
expat.dll
FDFTK.DLL
fribidi.dll
gds32.dll
iconv.dll
libeay32.dll
libmhash.dll
libmysql.dll
msql.dll
ntwdblib.dll
php4ts.dll
phpsrvlt.dll
phpsrvlt.jar
sablot.dll
ssleay32.dll
Yaz.dll
php4apache2.dll (substitute with the appropriate DLL of your PHP version and/or Apache distribution)
3) Create a new folder that will contain the extensions of your PHP version.
Example: E:\apache2\php\ext442
4) Upload the content of the extensions folder from your PHP version, to
the folder created in step 3).
For example: Copy the content of
M:\Software\Dev\_php\PHP 4.4.2\php-4.4.2-Win32\extensions
to
E:\apache2\php\ext442
5) Now customize a php-apache2handler.ini for this version.
Basically customize the directive:
extension_dir = "E:/apache2/php/ext442"
Copy that file into your E:\apache2\bin\php442
6) Now when you want to run that version of PHP simply copy of the files in
E:\apache2\bin\phpXXX to the E:\apache2\bin\ folder.
Make sure your httpd.conf contains the appropriate path:
LoadModule php4_module "E:/apache2/bin/php4apache2.dll"