Getting Started with PHP

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PHPin24  
Submitted At
2008-02-03 19:19:48  
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So you want to start setting up PHP on your local machine?

Lucky for you finding this post was the hardest part.

First of all you need a web-server. All this means is that you need to setup software on the pc so that you can serve web pages. This has all been pre-packaged by an freeware application (GPL licence) called WAMP (Windows Apache MySQL PHP).

Search google here

Apache - web-server
MySQL - database
PHP - coding language

After this is finished installing go to the WWW folder specified while installing (usually c:\wamp\www) and edit the file 'index.php'. If you do not have a PHP editor you can use notepad.

A good editor and I also recommend notepad++. Download and install the exe file for an easy installation.

In here you can delete everything and start with you general opening php tag
<?php


Remember to close the tag with a  
?>


ex.

<?php
echo "Hello world";
?>


Thats it ....

Have fun!




By PHPin24 @ 2008-02-03 19:19:48
THAAAANNK YOOOUUUU!!!
;D

By Shadow @ 2009-09-02 11:13:00
I'm happy to see this solved your problem Shadow !!

By PHPin24 @ 2009-10-19 01:53:27