What can PHP do?
On the note of fast and easy developer setup's, Xampp is of particular note. If you're interested, just Google 'Xampp' ... It is a product from the Apache Friends group and includes the Apache web server, PHP and Perl along with some other interesting modules, Filezilla ftp server and MySQL. All within one installer, making it a very usefull and broad developers or learners platform.
A simple tutorial
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Here we would like to show the very basics of PHP in a short, simple tutorial. This text only deals with dynamic web page creation with PHP, though PHP is not only capable of creating web pages. See the section titled What can PHP do for more information.
PHP-enabled web pages are treated just like regular HTML pages and you can create and edit them the same way you normally create regular HTML pages.
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User Contributed NotesA simple tutorial
Rob (Freefallfire at gmail dot com)
07-Apr-2007 02:54
07-Apr-2007 02:54
Michael
01-Mar-2007 10:54
01-Mar-2007 10:54
Agreed. Some of the pre-configured packs and associated tutorials really can simplify the installation and get you up and running in minutes but you MUST make sure that as an absolute minimum you add a secure password - ideally a mix of letters, numbers, not a real word etc. Otherwise, when your site/system is live, it will be potentially open to abuse.
cvncpu
25-Oct-2006 08:53
25-Oct-2006 08:53
just keep in mind that these installation packages are for development use, and are not built for a production enviroment, the preformance and security of these tools is not setup for use in a public website.