What can PHP do?
Don't worry about installing your own LAMP environment. (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP)
On windows, you can download and install WAMP. With one installation and you get an apache webserver, database server and php.
http://www.wampserver.com
On mac, you can download and install MAMP.
http://www.mamp.info/
Saves me a lot of headache to do development locally on my computer.
A simple tutorial
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Here we would like to show the very basics of PHP in a short, simple tutorial. This text only deals with dynamic web page creation with PHP, though PHP is not only capable of creating web pages. See the section titled What can PHP do for more information.
PHP-enabled web pages are treated just like regular HTML pages and you can create and edit them the same way you normally create regular HTML pages.
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User Contributed NotesA simple tutorial
jason dot khov at gmail dot com
28-Dec-2008 05:49
28-Dec-2008 05:49
Michael
01-Mar-2007 09:54
01-Mar-2007 09:54
Agreed. Some of the pre-configured packs and associated tutorials really can simplify the installation and get you up and running in minutes but you MUST make sure that as an absolute minimum you add a secure password - ideally a mix of letters, numbers, not a real word etc. Otherwise, when your site/system is live, it will be potentially open to abuse.
cvncpu
25-Oct-2006 06:53
25-Oct-2006 06:53
just keep in mind that these installation packages are for development use, and are not built for a production enviroment, the preformance and security of these tools is not setup for use in a public website.