I use a stand alone server program on my pc for programming on in PHP and mysql, there is a few around as most know. I'm wondering if anyone knows of one for the iPad so I can run and test code live. Also any good editors
PHP is not a server, what you need is a Web Server and a PHP interpreter that can run under iOS.. While there are few HTTP servers available for iOS (e.g. : http://code.google.com/p/cocoahttpserver/ ), unfortunately there is no php interpreter available. So if you are planing to have a development environment on your shiny iPad... Well, you can't.
Yeah I know, instead of running a web server or dedicating a pc for one I use xoom a small exe which loads apache etc in the background on my laptop, then using localhost on my laptop in explorer I'm able to run PHP pages in real time. This is what I ment and wanted something similar for ipad
I hope they make something like that, it will be really useful. Shouldn't be tough either.. Seeing how both PHP and Apache are open source solutions, they can be easily ported (or embedded in an app) to iOS.
Yeah that's what I thought and surprised someone's not done it already since it's been a year now since the first iPad :-( What about good PHP / Script editors? I've got Koder and textastic both have good and bad points. Same there's no macromedia lite version or something.