----------------------------------- Myst Wed Jan 23, 2008 8:15 pm PHP tool? ----------------------------------- whats a good (and free) php tool to use for programming? I know its a short question but i've looked around on the internet and all i can find are trial additions. ----------------------------------- Dan Wed Jan 23, 2008 8:40 pm RE:PHP tool? ----------------------------------- Do you mean an IDE (integrated development environment) or a complier/interpreter? ----------------------------------- Myst Wed Jan 23, 2008 8:41 pm RE:PHP tool? ----------------------------------- you know im new to programing; well i have some experience. anyways, do i need both to be able to code in php? ----------------------------------- Gooie Wed Jan 23, 2008 9:26 pm Re: PHP tool? ----------------------------------- You're looking for something like the Turing enviroment. I noticed your coming from Turing. Well, it's actually not like that for most other languages. [url=http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm]I prefer to write PHP in Notepad++. [url=http://www.php.net/]And you can download the interpreter form the PHP website. That's all you need. ----------------------------------- Myst Wed Jan 23, 2008 9:31 pm RE:PHP tool? ----------------------------------- oh ok, thanks ^_^ ummm how do i use the interpretor? or how i install? ----------------------------------- Myst Mon Jan 28, 2008 11:59 pm RE:PHP tool? ----------------------------------- *cough* hate to double post buuut its been at least a few days and i still need some help: when i try to run the php code onto firefox all i get is a blank; so any idea's? im just a nub at this kind of a thing. ----------------------------------- PaulButler Tue Jan 29, 2008 12:35 am RE:PHP tool? ----------------------------------- FireFox only understands HTML. The PHP code is what generates the server sends to FireFox. When you open a website (say, compsci.ca) on your computer, FireFox talks to compsci's server and tells it the page it wants, and compsci returns the HTML for that page. The HTML that is sent back is created by a PHP script that runs on the server. To learn PHP, you will need to either install a web server on your computer (which isn't as hard as it sounds), or get space on someone else's server (who either doesn't mind you messing around, or has adequate security measures in place to stop you from breaking stuff). If you are running Linux, installing a basic server is a piece of cake on modern distros. If you are running Windows, XAMPP (http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html) makes it just as easy. ----------------------------------- Myst Tue Jan 29, 2008 11:05 am RE:PHP tool? ----------------------------------- i thank you, now i can finally start learning the code ^_^ ----------------------------------- Myst Thu Feb 07, 2008 8:42 pm RE:PHP tool? ----------------------------------- hate to be a bother but i can't figure out how to use the web server on my computer. So i was wondering where i can register a site for free that can use php. ----------------------------------- Dragan Wed Apr 09, 2008 3:12 pm RE:PHP tool? ----------------------------------- You can use Zend for writing php code, you can download Zend Studio application for free at http://downloads.zend.com/studio/5.5.1/ZendStudio-5_5_1.zip (size 71,6MB)