Hey there I am looking to learn PHP and I am stuck on the first hurdle! And I am learning on my own with help of tutorials and forums and I was wondering if I could have some help.
I am doing this without a webserver at the moment just in windows. It's not working when I upload a php page, only the html comes up, is this because I need a working server with apache activated? Rather than trying it out in windows.
If yes how do I set this up once I get access to one of my servers (I'm in a library at the moment with a free day).
Regards Matthew
JeevesBond posted this at 10:07 — 27th September 2008.
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In Windows there're several ways to get a Web server up and running. I believe the easiest to setup is: XAMPP. That'll get you a working Apache + PHP + MySQL environment.
If you're interested we have an article on setting up a home Web server. That would be useful if you have an old PC to spare, and in time you could use it as an Internet facing server (just configure your router to port forward port 80 to the server).
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matthecool posted this at 10:14 — 27th September 2008.
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So yeh the problem is that I have to set up webserver with apache working yeh? With like a working mysql database file set up pointing locations in the right place.
thanks for the help by the way.
JeevesBond posted this at 10:17 — 27th September 2008.
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Yes, that's what you need. XAMPP will do that for you.
No worries.
decibel.places posted this at 22:11 — 27th September 2008.
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For learning PHP (and much more) I would recommend Tizag and W3Schools
xampp is very useful and a good learning environment. I use xampplite for local Drupal dev.
You can also get totally FREE web site hosting with PHP/MySQL at free-space
I set up an account there, pretty simple, but haven't really tried doing anything with it.