Getting started - How / what to install?
Posted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 2:01 am
Hi,
I’m totally new to PHP, but have programmed a lot in VB / Excel previously.
I want to have some recommendations on the best way to proceed.
• I have a domain and some web hosting with one.com
• I have gone through most of this http://devzone.zend.com/article/627 and I have added some PHP files and MySql examples to my one.com space and most of them worked fine
• I now want to start using an IDE and Eclipse seemed to be well recommended. I have downloaded this and started to use it
Info:
• I am working on a windows XP machine with IIS enabled. I don’t really want to get involved with building a Linux Server, but I would like to be able to build and test websites locally.
Problems / Questions:
• If I want to be able to do full local testing what do I need to do:
o Install PHP to work with IIS?
o Install MySql?
o Eclipse has a run button – will this simply run the files locally then utilising the above?
o Eclipse has some debugging functionality, but it seems you need to download something from Zend or XDebug. I think you have to pay for Zend; is XDebug free and easy to use/install and just as good?
• Can I link Eclipse to my one.com account so that everything I do is run on that server?
o Is thing recommended?
o Can I install PHP locally and use the MySql from the one.com server and still test locally?
• Should I be looking at a completely different approach?
Thanks in advance
I’m totally new to PHP, but have programmed a lot in VB / Excel previously.
I want to have some recommendations on the best way to proceed.
• I have a domain and some web hosting with one.com
• I have gone through most of this http://devzone.zend.com/article/627 and I have added some PHP files and MySql examples to my one.com space and most of them worked fine
• I now want to start using an IDE and Eclipse seemed to be well recommended. I have downloaded this and started to use it
Info:
• I am working on a windows XP machine with IIS enabled. I don’t really want to get involved with building a Linux Server, but I would like to be able to build and test websites locally.
Problems / Questions:
• If I want to be able to do full local testing what do I need to do:
o Install PHP to work with IIS?
o Install MySql?
o Eclipse has a run button – will this simply run the files locally then utilising the above?
o Eclipse has some debugging functionality, but it seems you need to download something from Zend or XDebug. I think you have to pay for Zend; is XDebug free and easy to use/install and just as good?
• Can I link Eclipse to my one.com account so that everything I do is run on that server?
o Is thing recommended?
o Can I install PHP locally and use the MySql from the one.com server and still test locally?
• Should I be looking at a completely different approach?
Thanks in advance