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Posted by Martin Mandl - m2m tech support on 01/07/07 09:14
Dear Frank,
> Installing PHP+Apache+MySQL on a laptop is basically really no
> different from installing it on a server.
I aggree completely
> CPU and RAM .. the more the better.
Of course it is always nice to have tons of CPU power and memory, but
is not really necessary to learn using php. As IDE I would recommend
HTMLKit, it has lots of plug ins for PHP and MySQL and is really light
weight. So basically you are running a text editor which does not need
a lot of CPU and memory. The actual server might even use the swap
memory most of the time, because you will only need it when you run
your scripts ... That actually will give you a feeling like the real
internet. Most HTML designers build heavy homepages on their PC or
local network and wonder why it is so slow when they publish them ;)
> OS .. I would personally never host any web apps on a windows server.
Again, I agree, but to learn PHP it is nice and handy. However there
are minor differences between the features of PHP & Apache on different
operation systems.
> As always, but especially with a laptop, install a good source
> repository client ( cvs, subversion, etc ) and keep a current synced
> copy of any code for an application you do not want to loose checked
> into your source code repository that is hosted on an external and
> stable server.
100% agree, but again not really necessary to learn PHP. But after you
are familiar with PHP you should have definitely have also a look into
cvs et al. A good starting point for windows would be tortoisecvs.
Have fun
Martin
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