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Re: Learning PHB.

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On 07.08.2015 at 01:37, Justisaur wrote:

> I learned BASIC and was pretty good with it about 25 years ago, but
> haven't done much programming since.  I've done quite a lot of
> dos/windows batch files and done some stuff with AutoHotKey.  HTTP I
> was pretty good with about 20 years ago, haven't used it a lot, but
> it's come in handy at least recognizing it.  I've done some stuff
> that probably looks more like using Excel as a database. I've been
> doing Desktop Support for about 10 years (should've moved on to
> something more advanced long ago).

It seems to me that is a useful base. :)

> I haven't gotten to any PHP yet, I've been trying to install the
> stuff so I can 'develop' on my computer, which has Win 7 x64.
> 
> I found this page which seems to be a start to installing everything
> at least:
> 
> https://docs.moodle.org/29/en/Manual_install_on_Windows_7_with_Apache_and_MySQL

Um, Moodle?  AFAIK Moodle is a learning platform, i.e. a special
application.  It seems to me that you're looking for a general
programming platform for web applications.

> So far I keep ending up with mis-matching versions, x64 with x86
> versions and it's not working yet.  I got an error installing Apache
> where I had to stop IIS (which I don't remember installing, but the
> computer is a couple years old, and I may have installed it for
> python).

You may want to try XAMPP, which offers a full-fledged development
environment for PHP.  However, for the most basic steps, it might be
sufficient to install only a recent version of PHP, and to use its
built-in webserver.  Just download a Windows binary[1], unzip it, add
the folder to your PATH, start a console and do

  php -S localhost:8888

Then power up a browser and request <http://localhost:8888/>.  This will
serve index.php|html of the current working directory where you've
started PHP.  See also
<http://php.net/manual/en/features.commandline.webserver.php>.

Anyhow, for web development you'll want to learn HTML and at least some
basic CSS.

[1] <http://windows.php.net/download/>

-- 
Christoph M. Becker

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Learning PHB. Justisaur <justisaur@gmail.com> - 2015-08-06 16:37 -0700
  Re: Learning PHB. "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2015-08-07 02:34 +0200
    Learning PHP (was: Learning PHB.) Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2015-08-07 18:31 +0200
      Re: Learning PHP (was: Learning PHB.) Allodoxaphobia <knock_yourself_out@example.net> - 2015-08-07 17:53 +0000
      Re: Learning PHP (was: Learning PHB.) Justisaur <justisaur@gmail.com> - 2015-08-07 13:18 -0700
    Re: Learning PHP. Justisaur <justisaur@gmail.com> - 2015-08-07 13:31 -0700
      Re: Learning PHP. Justisaur <justisaur@gmail.com> - 2015-08-11 13:03 -0700
        Re: Learning PHP. "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@arcor.de> - 2015-08-11 23:22 +0200
  Re: Learning PHB. Angel <he1983912@gmail.com> - 2022-06-30 07:44 -0700

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