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Old July 9th, 2002, 10:27 PM
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Question PHP/MySQL development on a home PC
I have a background in writing/design but now I want to get my hands dirty with PHP and MySQL for super-powerful dynamic websites.

I have dabled with PHP on free servers at University etc but I want to be able to develop a site offline, on my own machine and see it working. Is there some way I can get PHP and MySQL running on my Win2K PC so that I can build a database site at home before I go out and spend $50(AUS) a month for a server. I have looked on php.net and MySQL.org etc - but what I need is a tutorial on setting up a PHP/MySQL development environment on a PC.

Does anyone have any ideas ?
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Old July 10th, 2002, 02:13 AM
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download phptriad and have it install in your development pc. phptriad will install apache, php, perl and mysql for you within minutes.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/phptriad


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Just to clarify: Because php is a server-side scripting language you will of course need a server, the most popular being apache. It is very possible to do what you want, you don't even need a web connection, you just set up apache to serve webpages from "localhost" which is the loop-back address which every computer uses to refer to itself.

I installed everything seperately, but genedavinci's suggestion sounds pretty good. It may take you a while to get everything configured and happy, but there is a huge amount of documentation and tutorials on this topic, including from this very site (www.devshed.com)
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I use FoxServ 2.0
It's nice in that everything is installed, relatively hassle free, for you. Apache, PHP4.x, MySQL, phpMyAdmin and a bit more.
You can get it here.
I spent a week trying to set up Apache with PHP4.x and pulled most of my hair out. I had FoxServ running in less than 1/2hr.
The only trouble with this is that you don't learn command line instructions for MySQL. Some may say "Who cares?" but...
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Just a tip..... Remember that not all web hosting companies turn on all the functions of PHP, Apache, MySQL that you may during you development process. Some hosting companies turn off features due to security precautions, server performance and other issues. So you may want to keep in mind when you complete you application some hosts may not be able to run it.

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