Setting up a PHP environment in Dreamweaver 8 on Vista

Discussion in 'PHP' started by HaltingPoint, May 13, 2008.

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    I've decided I need to teach myself PHP, yay me.

    Anyways, I use Dreamweaver 8 on Vista and wondering what steps I need to take to set up a development environment so that I can preview the pages I code in Dreamweaver locally before uploading to my host. What do I need and how do I do it?

    If you know of any particular walkthroughs that are Vista specific that would also be great.

    Cheers.
     
    HaltingPoint, May 13, 2008 IP
  2. kreoton

    kreoton Peon

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    it is not important what kind of IDE you use, to preview, debug or just for faster development i recommend you to install XAMPP or WAMP for local PHP work ;)
     
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    i recommend you use xammp i had i bit of trouble with wamp, its still ok tho

    peace
     
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    Sabbir Banned

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    what abot easyphp 1.7 easy to download and easy to work. :)
     
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    wampserver works great for me on vista
     
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    for newbies it better to use easyphp.
     
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    I use xampplite on my laptop, and its easy to install, great and free. You could go the full version which is xampp, however I fins that there are no real features that I would use over xampplite.
     
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    So I went ahead and installed XAMPP and that went smoothly, however now I can't figure out for the life of me how to make it work with dreamweaver 8. I created a basic hello world page with a .php extension and it doesn't preview. How can I setup XAMPP and dreamweaver to work with my localhost environment?
     
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    Well, nevermind...after much slogging through documentation and googling I figured out how to set things up and it now works correctly. God I love PHP. It reminds me of how I felt w/ CSS when I realized I didn't need to repeat the styles every single fucking time...except now it can be for entire blocks of code. Of course that's just scratching the surface...
     
    HaltingPoint, May 16, 2008 IP