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kenexcelon
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Post by kenexcelon »

I am wanting to learn PHP, but I want to debug it on my own machine. What else besides the download of the PHP zip file do I need to do this? I'm running Windows XP Pro. Any good free PHP IDEs? Any tips for installation?

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alvinphp
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Post by alvinphp »

I don't know of any free IDE that offers Debugging for PHP. Zend 5 is looking really nice. If you are a student it will only be $99. Well worth the price considering the time savings you will get.
kenexcelon
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Post by kenexcelon »

Do I need to install a server or anything else?

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Chris Corbyn
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Post by Chris Corbyn »

Not neccessarily but it would be a HUGE help. Manually debugging your code can be done either in command line or in a web browser. If you want to use a browser then you'll need to install either Apache or IIS (built into widndows XP Pro). Zend requires a working PHP setup in order to do the debugging it does ;)
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