trevi Posted August 25, 2013 Share Posted August 25, 2013 Hi, I signed up for a class in PHP recently. The instructor says that a PHP ide or simply notepad can be used to develop php and html files. I've been researching what I need to install on my windows 7 machine and I'm confused. If I use Notepad to create my php and html files, how do I test them on my PC? I thought I could set up a virtual directory and run them from there, but I think I'm still missing something. What else do I need to do? Can you help? Thanks, Trev Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/281544-new-to-phpbasic-questions/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Solution fastsol Posted August 25, 2013 Solution Share Posted August 25, 2013 You can use Notepad or even better Notepad++ to write the code and install WAMP to run the code in the browser from your local machine. Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/281544-new-to-phpbasic-questions/#findComment-1446678 Share on other sites More sharing options...
0xMatt Posted August 25, 2013 Share Posted August 25, 2013 You need to setup a WAMP server for windows(Windows, Apache, MySQL, PHP) to execute php files. Good but big wampp server for Windows: http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html Haven't used this but it's an alternative: http://www.wampserver.com/en/ Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/281544-new-to-phpbasic-questions/#findComment-1446679 Share on other sites More sharing options...
fastsol Posted August 25, 2013 Share Posted August 25, 2013 Use this link, it's what I have and it works great. Haven't used this but it's an alternative: http://www.wampserver.com/en/ Quote Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/281544-new-to-phpbasic-questions/#findComment-1446681 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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