Learning PHP Right, I'm planning on learning PHP while I have a bit of spare time (yes, i'm sad!) so I was wondering what I will need to get started, anyone help? I'm running Windows XP, what will I need to download and where can I get it from etc? Are there any decent good tutorials? Where can I get them? What good PHP resources are there? Ta!
first of all you need to get php working on your comp!!! get it here http://www.php.net/downloads.php I would also recommend getting a tool to edit it such as dreamweaver or I use PHPed!!! all the help u need to understand the code should be on http://www.php.net/ tell me if u need anymore help!!! Nik
You want to install Apache web server where you can run things off locally go to download.com search for PHPTriad, it will install apache and MYSQL/PHPMyAdmin
Cheers, I ended up downloading EasyPHP which seems to have installed MYSQL, Apache and PHPMyAdmin or whatever its called! Now, how do I use Apache then?!?!?
Fuck....all the EasyPHP help files are in French....time to download something else then!!! What a waste of 45 minutes!!!
Put your files/php scripts in the htdocs folder within the apache folder, and when you want to test/run them, start the apache program, open internet explorer and type in http://localhost/ then the file name/ and it will run the script as if it was on the internet. If you want other people to test them out as well, find out your IP address, i.e http://62.33.09.11/ and put the file name you want to run after it, and it will work in the same way, but you have to have the apache program running in the background for any of these lot to work.
