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Pooky
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Easy Php or Xampp

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I am a newbie to everything with relation to coding.

I want to try and building myself a shop using OSCommerce.

I started to play around with it a while ago but got sidetracked with more important stuff.

Anyway getting to the put I wanted to develop it on my computer, so after reading around I understood I needed PHP, Apache and MySQL

I downloaded EasyPHP ages ago for my desktop, however I see plenty of people mention Xampp now

Which is better for me to use in relation to me knowing nothing, as I want to download one again to put on my Laptop which will allow me to install OSCommerce onto.
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neophyte
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Post by neophyte »

I like Xampp it seems to have more features and it's in english out of the box.
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Post by wwwapu »

If I had to choose, I'd take Xampp.
Reasons:
  • More readable website (I don't mean france)
    Project activity EasyPHP 03/2005 Xampp 06/2005
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Post by Pooky »

Cheers for the quick replies xampp it is then.
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Post by timvw »

Imho the best is to install them all separately. This way you will be gently pushed to start knowing what you are doing.. It's hard in the beginning, but it will pay on the middle-long term..

Or, you could get XAMPP, Eclipse (with phpeclipse.de plugin) and the simpletest plugin (although this plugin will become better when the author releases a new version, with my patches in it ;))
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Post by CoderGoblin »

timvw wrote: Or, you could get XAMPP, Eclipse (with phpeclipse.de plugin) and the simpletest plugin (although this plugin will become better when the author releases a new version, with my patches in it ;))
Be aware the latest Eclipse (3.1) does not run with the old standard phpeclipse plugin. You need to download the beta version they have available (which I have had no problems with but it took me ages to realise this was the reason the php editor wasn't working),
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Post by timvw »

To be honest, i've switched to http://www.xored.com/trustudio eclipse plugin instead of phpeclipse. It doesn't have a brower (not in the free version at least) but i like the editor better (better support for packages etc..)
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