Programming in PHP
For the keen, it is the easiest. PHP 5 or PHP version 5 has the object oriented capabilities and has grown to a mature level. There are more websites created in PHP than in any other language. Some of the very large business houses use them. For example, Oracle Corporation which is well known for the most popular Oracle database engine, supports PHP and provides a number of helpful downloads, like this pdf book for PHP, for free. Similarly, IBM, the other big company in the IT and computers field has extensive PHP support. On this day, if you search for PHP on ibm.com, you will find 52,728 items. Most of them are articles and specific topics covered. In nutshell, in other words, PHP is no more a lame duck. It is getting recognition from the industry and a lot of work is being done in PHP. In fact, this site is running on PHP.
If you are convinced that PHP is good to start, you have won half the battle. From here on, it becomes very easy.
Download xampp. Say, for windows, take the zip file. Unzip in a folder. Please keep in mind, the folder has to be named xampp if you downloaded xampp and it has to be xampplite if you downloaded xampplite.
Just open the folder in windows explorer. You need to notice a few things:
There is an apache folder which has htdoc sub-folder. The main folder has a few .bat files.
To start, duble click on start-apache.bat. This will start apache. Then click on start-mysql.bat. This will start mysql.
In your Internet browser, type, http://localhost and you should see an orange screen giving you option of a bunch of languages.
Choosing English will take you to an information page. This is your setup for apache, php, and mysql.
Play around to make yourself familiar.
Now, to learn follow this link. There are tons of tutorials on the web and soon you will be able to program.
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