Video Tutorial development setup

[eluser]nell789[/eluser]
Hello, I just discovered CodeIgniter today and after watching the two video tutorials I am intrigued.

My question is about the way the tutorial creator was setup for the development of the site.

I've searched the forum on the subject, and found out which database application he was using, but I'd like to know which text editor was being used that allowed him to create or edit a file and for it to be available on the website right away. Was the whole thing being done locally?

In my previous PHP work, I've always had to upload newly created or edited pages to my host via FTP, which makes testing a very tedious task. How can I set things up so it's all as easy as it looked in the tutorials?

[eluser]Future Webs[/eluser]
http://www.wampserver.com/en/

you could use something like that to set up a local server

[eluser]featureBlend[/eluser]
w3bm is right about wamp - you can use xampp as well.

I just did it the plain ole fashioned way and installed Apache, PHP, SQL and PhpMyAdmin separately.

[eluser]Shrike67[/eluser]
on windows you could use notepad++ with the ftp plugin or set up a local server

[eluser]garrettheel[/eluser]
The text editor is called TextMate

[eluser]nell789[/eluser]
Thanks for the replies. wamp and xampp look interesting for creating a local development environment.

A friend turned me on to the text editor Komodo Edit, and it looks like it has built in FTP that I can use to cut out the middle man for uploading files. I think I will give that a shot and see how I like it.

[eluser]Tom Schlick[/eluser]
if you are running on a mac and want a lightweight all in one editor (FTP, Editing, SSH, SVN, ++) you should look at Coda

http://panic.com/coda

[eluser]nell789[/eluser]
No, I'm on Windows, so no Coda for me.

[eluser]obiron2[/eluser]
I use Xammp as the web server and Hapedit as my editor and Blaze FTP as my FTP client.

I have discovered that they will all run from a USB stick as make no registry entries which means that I can code and test on any PC and my database. apache and PHP all run from the stick.

I havn't found a good image editor yet, but when i do..

Obiron