PHP Web Applications Development — A Starter Tutorial

This is a beginner’s guide to setting up an environment to start doing web applications development in PHP. If you are anything past the beginner level, this article may not be any beneficial to you at all; so you may stop reading here.

A friend of mine has recently requested me to write a starter tutorial for someone (presumably, who already has some programming experience and web site development experience, as he does) to start doing web applications development, particularly in PHP. I thought, hey, maybe I should just write it up here, since I haven’t written anything here for a while.

In this tutorial, I will cover some simple steps on how to setup a web server (Apache), PHP, and a database (MySQL) on your machine. In particular, I will assume the use of the Windows machine. Why? Honestly — if you’re operating Linux already, shouldn’t you know enough to be able to setup all that on your own? I will also be writing some of my preferred methods of managing the server.

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