help needed...

[ah_ting1985]

i new to PHP.......nw me is doing a web programming using PHP.
I need to know what are the software needed to do PHP.

Thanks in advance :)

[Kayla]

Hello,

I prefer http://www.ultraedit.com/index.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=108 for writing code.

It is also nice if your web host provides you to use php pages on your website. Most good host have php enabled so you can test your scripts realtime.

Good luck with your php coding...

[dwade]

i new to PHP.......nw me is doing a web programming using PHP.
I need to know what are the software needed to do PHP.

Thanks in advance :)

Kayla has given you excellent avise for a good editor. I've used UltraEdit for years, and I don't know what I'd do without it. The only other thing I see that you might need (besides PHPMagic of course) is a way to run your applications on your development machine. For this I would like to introduce a very nice French package called EasyPHP. You can find it on SourceForge at: http://sourceforge.net/projects/quickeasyphp/ This application gives you Apache, MySQL, and PHP in a very nice package. It makes learning AMP, and testing your applications very easy.

WARNING: do not use this package for your site, it has some security issues.

For development and learning purposes I don't think you can beat EasyPHP.
You might also want to get a Mozilla Firefox as you development browser. It has many useful development extentions that I've found to be very useful. You can find Firefox at: http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/index.html

Both EasyPHP and Firefox are open source so cost is not an issue.

Hope you have a lot of fun learning PHP;

dwade