question about PHP

Tabarnak69 · Post by **Tabarnak69** » Mon May 21, 2012 1:04 pm

Please be patient with me. I was a photographer until a few weeks ago and I'm still in a learning phase.

I'm using dreamweaver cs5.5 and I want to look at pages designed using PHP. Problem is I'm asked for a testing server. Is there a way to view the pages without having to constantly upload the page to a server? (Ie: test it locally from my hard drive? )

vrocks · Post by **vrocks** » Mon May 21, 2012 1:26 pm

Tabarnak69 wrote:Please be patient with me. I was a photographer until a few weeks ago and I'm still in a learning phase.

I'm using dreamweaver cs5.5 and I want to look at pages designed using PHP. Problem is I'm asked for a testing server. Is there a way to view the pages without having to constantly upload the page to a server? (Ie: test it locally from my hard drive? )

You would have to install PHP on your computer.

I suggest Googling for XAMPP.

Tabarnak69 · Post by **Tabarnak69** » Mon May 21, 2012 5:32 pm

Thank you.
I'm completly lost but I am sincerly greatful because I'm sure I'll figure it out. (I hope)

I actually believed it was going to be as easy as install then select preview in browser. (Boy was I wrong!)

vrocks · Post by **vrocks** » Tue May 22, 2012 1:30 am

XAMPP installs very easily... Then you can just load localhost in your browser... aka 127.0.0.1

Tabarnak69 · Post by **Tabarnak69** » Tue May 22, 2012 1:52 am

This exactly where I get stuck. I plug in the local host and I get nothing. I'm reading the docs and I have to read another set of docs to try to make sense out of the first set.

edhel2005 · Post by **edhel2005** » Tue May 22, 2012 9:23 am

You can also try easyphp, i have found it... well easier, even though i did work with xampp for a while too. You can read the really simple install stuff in their introduction page.

Now for some troubleshooting:

be sure to have xampp turned on when trying to access the localhost, you should see apache and mysql running like this http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-u16bk0dXV48/T ... ontrol.gif

also try installing/running it as administrator if you have vista and beyond

and don't forget your php files have to be in the localhost folder (www or http or whatever)

Tabarnak69 · Post by **Tabarnak69** » Tue May 22, 2012 10:42 am

I keep getting only "Apache 2 is starting..." and nothing else happens.

vrocks · Post by **vrocks** » Tue May 22, 2012 1:47 pm

Tabarnak69 wrote:I keep getting only "Apache 2 is starting..." and nothing else happens.

Could be because you didn't install it as the administrator?

I would uninstall it and then redownload (or find the installer in your download folder) and this time right click and select run as administrator. I think it was trying to setup services to run in the background and didn't have the proper security level to do so.

Tabarnak69 · Post by **Tabarnak69** » Tue May 22, 2012 1:53 pm

vrocks wrote:
Tabarnak69 wrote:I keep getting only "Apache 2 is starting..." and nothing else happens.
Could be because you didn't install it as the administrator?

I would uninstall it and then redownload (or find the installer in your download folder) and this time right click and select run as administrator. I think it was trying to setup services to run in the background and didn't have the proper security level to do so.

I'm running XP and I did the install to a USB key option. The docs said to just extract and run the setup_xampp.bat

edhel2005 · Post by **edhel2005** » Wed May 23, 2012 8:39 pm

usb sticks can be dodgy, it might not have permission to run those kind of services and some come with all kinds of security software that can limit their functions

i suggest you try installing it on your hard drive first and make it work there, then mess around with a usb install

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