Installing PHP on a Mac for developing purposes.

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marshie
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Installing PHP on a Mac for developing purposes.

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I'd like to install PHP on my Mac so that I can develop my page without having to upload every file to my site. Will installing PHP cause any security issues? I don't want to run a server or anything like that, I just want to use it so that I can work on my site on my computer.
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If you wish to install Apache/PHP on MacOSX: PHPMac.com

If you're interested in the security issues, simply don't hand out your IP to anyone and you should be just fine. I run my server all the time on my computer to build my site(s), and nothing wrong ever happens. :)
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But I don't want to run a server or open any ports or anything like that. I just want to be able to open a .php document and have it be parsed automatically. And I'm not going to host my site, I already have an online host.
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