Daniel Dumas » Tips and Tutorials http://danieldumas.com Just another WordPress weblog Wed, 04 Aug 2010 11:02:56 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 PHP and MySQL Basics: Software Needed http://danieldumas.com/php-and-mysql-basics-software-needed.php http://danieldumas.com/php-and-mysql-basics-software-needed.php#comments Sun, 21 Sep 2008 01:53:25 +0000 Daniel http://danieldumas.com/?p=170 Now that you have a little background about PHP, let’s now talk about the tools/software that you need in this lesson.

WHAT DO YOU NEED…

  1. A Web Server - Apache / IIS will work too..
  2. PHP - so that our web server can understand our php file.
  3. Database - MySQL
  4. Text Editor - Notepad, Dreamweaver, PHP Designer or any text editor that you want..
  5. Web Browser - you can use any broswer of your choice(Firefox, IE, SAFARI, OPERA, Chrome)..
  6. Operating System - Linux, Windows or Mac OS.

    In this tutorial you may use any of the following:

    LAMP stands for Linux, Apache, MysQL, PHP

    WAMP stands for Windows, Apache, MysQL, PHP

    MAMP stands for Mac, Apache, MysQL, PHP

    XAMPP stands for Any OS, Apache, MysQL, PHP, Perl

    choose any of the above mentioned depending on the operating system you’re using, this is includes all the source code, binaries, folders etc.. in just one installation!

    DOWNLOAD LINK…

    download the latest stable package..

    XAMPP – http://www.apachefriends.org/en/

    WAMP – http://www.wampserver.com/en/

    MAMP – http://www.mamp.info/en/download.html

    for linux users you may just download xampp..

    After downloading Install it and now you’re good to go…

    * for windows user, open your favorite browser then type http://localhost on the address bar

    * for mac users do the same thing but put ~youruserdirectory after http://localhost, so if your userdirectory on mac is daniel, you need to type http://localhost/~daniel

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    WHAT IS PHP?

    • It is a server-side, scripting language. - it does’nt need a compiler to run or it does’nt need to be compiled. Another example of scripting language is Javascript. but unlike Javascript, PHP runs on the web server. Javasript runs on the users browser.
    • PHP’s syntax is very similar to C, Perl and Java.
    • It is an HTML embedded scripting language. - it is used to output html in the browser. you need to change the extension file of your html to .php to tell the server process it as php.
    • It can make your page more dynamic.

    WHY USE PHP?

    • It is open source - it is free to download and free to use.
    • It is cross platform - it can run on windows, mac or linux server, and all browsers.
    • Most opensource web applications are powered by PHP - Wordpress, Joomla, Mambo, PhpBB, etc. by learning php you may be able to work with these and also customize it.

    • Almost 20Million webpages in the world uses PHP - just like google, friendster, multiply, facebook, etc..

    • It is powerful, robust and scalable - it can deliver excellent performance even if your site is a high traffic site.

    • it has built in database support -you can create database driven web applications immediately.

    • Anything you can do with a regular programming laguages, you can do with PHP - you can perform calculations, validate user inputs, process forms, read and write files etc…
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    Hello guys today i am going to start my basic PHP tutorial. i will give examples in every part of this tutorial so that you can follow with me easily. my aim in this tutorial is to share my knowledge in PHP to anyone specially to my blog readers who wants to learn the basics of PHP. i will focus on the very basic of PHP so that anyone can follow along even if you dont have any background in PHP or any other programming language before. Anyone is welcome to comment or add anything in the tutorial specially those php professional so that we can help other people dont worry i will put your name in the contributors list hehe thanks in advance.

    Here’s the list of topics / contents included in the tutorial.

    • Introduction
    • Software Needed and Installations
    • PHP scripting basics
    • Data Types
    • Conditionals and Looping
    • Arrays and Functions
    • Working with MySQL
    • Working With Sessions and more…

    I will update and make a separate page of all the links to the tutorial everytime i post so that you can check it out lesson by lesson or chapter by chapter. thanks.

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