Mar
7
PHP Development A quick how-to
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I’m developing (again!) a program in php to perform some podcast stuff. So I needed to get a setup configured locally to do my development work on.
Here’s the tools I chose.
Xampp for the apache/mysql/php server. I configured a simple virtual host as well to make things a bit easier.
Wscite for text/code the editor. Even though Maguma Studio Free is ok it has a bug on my XP system that the scroll mouse causes and I don’t have the time or inclination to fix it.
I tried a couple of different templating solutions including Savant and went back to Smarty again as this seems the most logical in my mind.
Next I needed some templating and css editing facilities. The best thing for css (as I can’t stretch to buy Dreamweaver just now) is to install the Firefox Development suite. It works a treat once you’ve got a rough idea of layout to work from.
I also re-installed NVU so I can test out HTML code and steal it for the template as I go. I know I can do this in Firefox as well but sometimes its faster to use another app/window.
I need to make sure the code is versioned (it’s a bad idea with php to do anything else as it lends itself so well to quick fixes that then take ages to back-out). So a fresh install of WinCVS was in order. I don’t recommend it to anyone unless they know what their doing. I’m probably going to switch over to Subversion anyway once I’ve tested TortiseSVN.
