Running PHP code locally (NOT on a server or for a server)
Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2003 11:26 pm
I want to convert my existing site (http://www.devimg.net) from ASP to PHP. I'm a PHP newbie and the current host (Brinkster) doesn't support PHP so I need to get an account elsewhere, but before I do that I want to get a working PHP version of my site to make sure I can do it with no drawbacks.
Since there aren't any good free webhosts, I want to just develop and run the scripts on my hard drive; the internet doesn't need to be involved at all. So how do I do that? PHP.net seems geared completely towards people running webservers, which makes sense, but all I want to do is run PHP code to generate HTML (or access files, or work with MySQL).
EDIT: It doesn't actually have to be MySQL, it could be any database type, it's really not very hard converting code from one to the other. I say this just in case MySQL isn't free, though I believe it is, right?
Since there aren't any good free webhosts, I want to just develop and run the scripts on my hard drive; the internet doesn't need to be involved at all. So how do I do that? PHP.net seems geared completely towards people running webservers, which makes sense, but all I want to do is run PHP code to generate HTML (or access files, or work with MySQL).
EDIT: It doesn't actually have to be MySQL, it could be any database type, it's really not very hard converting code from one to the other. I say this just in case MySQL isn't free, though I believe it is, right?