PHP Beginners Tutorial - Introduction

PHP Beginners Tutorials - An Introduction

First off, what you need.

A web server ( one of these )
– Apache 1.3 or 2,
- IIS (Internet Information Services. Comes with windows 2000 & XP)
- or similar.

PHP Coding Language
- PHP

MySQL Database ( required in future tutorials )
- MySQL

If you have a host that supports all of these programs then that’s great. If not you can install all of the above on a windows 2000 or windows XP system.  I recommend using Apache over IIS as IIS has several security flaws which I have discovered to my cost previously.

PHP.net provides a useful installation guide on Apache 2 - follow those steps
http://www.php.net/manual/en/install.apache2.php

My tip is to download the apache install package and run that.  Then install the MySQL package, then follow the steps on the PHP.net site.  I will write a full step by step guide to the installation shortly.

Once you have an installation on your local machine or a web server, proceed to..

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Lesson 1 - Your first bit of code ->