Posted by Jeff B on 12/16/05 00:21

My plan is to code the website on my pc and then transport to host on the
internet. Is this practical or is there a better way to do it for
maintenance and so on. As you can probably tell my experience with websites
is limited but i do have a programming background.


"Billy Hates" <billyhates@yahoo.com.com.com> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 15 Dec 2005 16:49:21 -0500, Jeff B wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Im learning PHP along with MySql. I installed MySql with no problem and
>> have completed several tutorials to learn it. Now when trying to use PHP
>> code within an html page it dosn't display anything,even with a simple
>> display command.
>>
>> I installed the newest version of PHP(windows installer) and MySql on my
>> home PC to do these tutorials and connect seem to get PHP working. Im
>> sure
>> its just a setting that im not properly configuring upon install of PHP
>> or
>> perhaps i have to install another piece of software to act as a
>> webserver?
>> is this needed even for pc testing?
>>
>> Any help on this would be great.
>>
>> Thanx.
>> Jeff.
> PHP is just a component of a web-server. PHP generates an HTML output that
> should be viewed in a web browser. You certainly may redirect all PHP
> output in a file, then open it with Mozilla as a local file. But it's much
> easier and convenient to use some web server as a medium between PHP and
> your browser. So it's true that you have to install a webserver even for
> pc testing. Seek the Web. There should be a number of free simple web
> servers for windows. At least you can use Apache from apache.org
>

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