PHP 101: Installing Apache with XAMPP for PHP
Tuesday, May 15th, 2007How to get started
So you want to be a web developer? Professional or as a hobby, PHP can be a fun experience. However, if you don’t know where to start off, it can be a total pain in the butt and a huge headache. We hope to help give people a good shove off into PHP programming world. However, we want to avoid technical jargon (words) and keep it easy for gamers to understand.
In this tutorial we will accomplish the following:
- Get a basic understanding of what PHP does.
- Install software (XAMPP) to run a personal web server on your own machine.
- Learn how to make simple script files and where to save them.
- How to view your website.