PHP Server for local computer

You can practice your php scripting locally using some software that can handle php MySql, phpMyAdmin and Apache. These software is important because you can't run your own php script in just running it in the browser. And also they provided you a database here that you can used for some data project.

http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html
http://www.easyphp.org
http://www.wampserver.com

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PHP Editors

 I always use Adobe Dreamweaver for editing my php scripts but I can give you some of php editor you can used.

Cross Platform

• ActiveState Komodo Edit - Live PHP syntax checking, (s)ftp support, functions list and code hints
• Bluefish - Supports any protocol that is supported by GnomeVFS. (SSH...)
• Eclipse - PHPEclipse and PHP Development Tools projects. With additional plugins supports SVN, CVS, Database modelling, SSH/FTP access, Database Navigation, Trac integration, and others.
• Emacs - Advanced text editor. The nXhtml addon has special support for PHP (and other template languages).
• Geany - Syntax highlighting for HTML + PHP. Provides PHP function list.
• jEdit - Versatile Free/Open source editor. Supports SFTP and FTP.
• Netbeans IDE - A dedicated PHP coding environment and complete integration with web standards. Supports SFTP and FTP.
• Vim - provides PHP syntax highlighting.
• SciTE - fast, PHP syntax highlighting, compiler integration, powerful config via Lua API:LUA

Windows

• Alleycode HTML Editor — Freeware editor with syntax highlighting for both php and html.
• ConTEXT — Freeware editor with syntax highlighting.
• CodeLobster
• Crimson Editor — Lightweight editor. Supports FTP.
• Dev-PHP IDE
• HTML-Kit — Syntax highlighting, Supports FTP.
• Intype — Lightweight editor. Alpha version.
• Notepad2 — Simple editor with syntax highlighting
• Notepad++ — Supports FTP; syntax highlighting.
• PHPEdit — Free for student use, shareware, counts down from 30 days after install.
• Programmer's Notepad
• PSPad — Supports FTP; syntax highlighting.

Linux

• gedit
• gPHPEdit
• Joe's Own Editor
• Kwrite
• Kate - Supports any protocol that is supported by KDE. (FTP, SSH...)
• KDevelop - Supports any protocol that is supported by KDE. (FTP, SSH...)
• Quanta Plus - Supports any protocol that is supported by KDE. (FTP, SSH...)

Mac OS X

• Espresso - Support FTP, SFTP and Amazon S3; Trial available
• Coda - Support FTP, SFTP, SVN; Trial available
• TextMate
• BBEdit - Supports FTP
• Smultron
• TextWrangler - Supports SFTP and FTP

Commercial editors

• ActiveState Komodo IDE - Support for PHP syntax checking, debugging, trial available
• Adobe Dreamweaver - Supports SFTP and FTP
• Code Crusader IDE - Trial available
• Delphi - Only syntax highlighting; Trial available
• Delphi for PHP - Trial available
• Dreamweaver — Supports SFTP and FTP; Trial available.
• EditPlus - Supports SFTP and FTP; Trial available
• EmEditor
• JetBrains PhpStorm - professional PHP IDE with advanced editor, on-the-fly code analysis and other web development specific tools including FTP/SFTP syncronization.
• Microsoft Expression Web - Full PHP support with syntax highlighting, etc; Trial available
• PHPEdit - Supports SFTP and FTP
• phpDesigner - Supports SFTP and FTP, syntax highlighting for many programming languages; Trial available
• phpDesigner 7 - Supports SFTP and FTP, syntax highlighting for many programming languages; Trial available : http://www.mpsoftware.dk/
• NuSphere PhpED - Support for FTPS (TLS/SSL) and WebDAV/HTTPS (SSL) protocols, syntax highlighting for (PHP, XML, XHTML, HTML, CSS and JavaScript) languages; Trial available : http://www.nusphere.com/download.php.ide.htm
• skEdit
• SlickEdit
• TextMate - Trial available
• TextPad - Trial available
• Top PHP Studio - Supports FTP
• UltraEdit - Supports SFTP and FTP; Trial Available
• VS.Php for Visual Studio - PHP IDE for Visual Studio 2005, 2008 and 2010. Full intellisense and debugging support for native PHP applications.
• Zend Studio - Supports SFTP and FTP (Eclipse with Zend's Commercial Plug-in)
• PHPEd - Supports FTP, SFTP and WebDav
• WeBuilder
• Rapid PHP 2010 - PHP editor and PHP IDE

 Source: List of PHP editors - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
 

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PHP Tutorial - Beginner

What is PHP?
        PHP, which stands for Hypertext Preprocessor. It's a server side scripting language that you can use to generate any HTML web pages dynamically.Using this server side script you can actually control over your website depends on your need. PHP is also the extension using this document. You need to install a web server, Apache and a database, MySQL. PHP always start with a tag '<?php' and always end with '?>' or '<?' and always ended with '?>'.

PHP Sample
<html>
<head>
<title>PHP Tutorial</title>
</head>
<body>

<?php echo 'PHP Tutorial!'; ?>

</body>
</html>

Save as sample.php

The codes above simply display the text 'PHP Tutorial!' in a website.The echo function simply display the string inside its parameter.

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Start

Here now a new created blog for the website developers and can be useful for their project and also for the new upcoming projects. It includes php, javascripts & Ajax, designs and other elements for creating a good website.

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