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Newbie Help
Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2005 6:41 pm
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?
Thanks

Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2005 6:49 pm
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.
Newbie Help
Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2005 6:54 pm
by kenexcelon
Do I need to install a server or anything else?
Thanks
Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2005 7:11 pm
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
