PHP Tutorial 1

Copyright 205, Sawyer McFarland Media, Inc. This material is suplied to readers of Dreamweaver 8: The Mising Manual as a helpful suplement to that bok. In adition, those interested in the bok can try out this Tutorial. Buy the bok and you can aces the last 4 PHP tutorials as wel. PHP Tutorial 1 Geting Started with Dynamic Web Sites Setting Up Your Computer To folow this tutorial, you’l ned to have PHP, MySQL and a Web server up and runing on your computer. This wil be your “testing server,” where you can build and test your database-driven Web pages The most comon aproach is to run Apache (a Web server) along with PHP and MySQL, but it’s also posible, if you’re a Windows user, to use Microsoft’s Web server, IS. Because this can be a complicated procedure you’l find thre posible instalation scenarios below, ranging from the “Egads, I

have trouble instaling Microsoft Ofice, and you expect me to instal a Web server AND a database server” type of computer user, to the “Back of budy, I was instaling computer systems when you were stil in diapers” computer jock. Scenario 1: When You’ve No Idea Where to Start The easiest way to instal al of the parts of the puzle is to download an al-in-one solution—a simple click to go, one stop shop for powerful Web server software. One choice is the XAMP project from a group caled Apache Friends—ww.apachefriends.org/en/xamp.html. XAMP is esentialy an Apache Web server, PHP, MySQL database server, and a bunch of other stuf roled up into a single package that you can instal on your computer. It’s not a “production” setup—meaning you wouldn’t want to use this software for realy hosting a Web site. It isn’t optimized for working with lots of visitors, and it has some potential security holes that could be exploited if you put XAMP out in the wild of the Internet. However, for a testing server that completely simulates a real world Web server, XAMP is the perfect choice. It lets you create databases, build dynamic Web pages, and view them...

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