C-puter

Well, I am trying to finish up a paper I have due...so, I haven't much new to add. But here's what little new information I have for today.

Let us say you want to save precious bandwidth and develop locally. In this case, you will want to install a web server, such as Apache, and of course PHP. You will most likely want to install a database as well, such as MySQL.

You can either install these individually or choose a simpler way. Our manual has installation instructions for PHP (assuming you already have some webserver set up). In case you have problems with installing PHP yourself, we would suggest you ask your questions on our installation mailing list. If you choose to go on the simpler route, then locate a pre-configured package for your operating system, which automatically installs all of these with just a few mouse clicks. It is easy to setup a web server with PHP support on any operating system, including MacOSX, Linux and Windows.

Yeah, so the few times I have messed with PHP, I made changes to my code locally and then uploaded the new file to my web server...which takes forever. Not using much PHP this wasn't too time consuming. I think if I want to get serious about this I need to develop locally.