Program do you use?

[eluser]RyanPriestman[/eluser]
Hi guys,

With php, what program do you use if you do use one?
Some like to experiment in a program before putting the final masterpeice onto their site

[eluser]BrianDHall[/eluser]
WampServer or XAMPP allows you to use 'localhost' (your own computer) as a server so you can develop in PHP and have changes you save in the file be instantly updated on your local server. That's how the vast majority of us do it.

Many of us also use Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) for the actual programming, but seeing the results the code produces is still provided by server software.

[eluser]RyanPriestman[/eluser]
I will try one of those out

Over the next year, i want to try and start seriouslly focusing!

[eluser]33cent[/eluser]
Try XAMPP, but enable "short_tags" in php.ini

[eluser]Eric Barnes[/eluser]
I have been using Zend Server CE lately. http://www.zend.com/en/products/server-ce/index

So far I have had great results with it.

[eluser]Jeroen Brussich[/eluser]

sudo apt-get install apache2 php5-mysql mysql-server php5 libapache2-mod-php5 php5-cgi php5-gd php5-cli phpmyadmi

sudo apt-get install quanta

On Windows, I really liked eclipse for PHP or notepad++ on a 'webserver on a stick'