Im learning PHP, Help me hw to run the PHP!

[kamahak]

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Mas maayo unta toh dli WAMPserver imo gi install or XAMPP or unsa. These are just abstractions to make it easy for you to setup your work station. If ganahan jd ka mu kat-on. Mas maayo if kasabot ka unsa jd ng PHP ug unsaon na siya pag padagan.

PHP is an interpreted language, meaning dli siya kelangan i-compile. What it needs to run is a webserver that can interpret PHP (ie. Apache, nginx, etc). Install a webserver then read the PHP documentation on how to add the PHP module sa imo webserver. It will be extremely difficult to newbies, but is a necessary pain to endure if you want to start right. And I will always believe in starting out right.

If you get stuck, ask here for specific question. Or Google. Chances are other people have succeeded where you are failing and have posted their solutions online.

Learning the language itself (if you're already a programmer of some other language) will be easier than you think as it is a language based on and built on C. Setting it up manually will provide a good foundation of the basics that you need to understand when working with PHP.

[salbahis]

Mas maayo unta toh dli WAMPserver imo gi install or XAMPP or unsa. These are just abstractions to make it easy for you to setup your work station. If ganahan jd ka mu kat-on. Mas maayo if kasabot ka unsa jd ng PHP ug unsaon na siya pag padagan.

PHP is an interpreted language, meaning dli siya kelangan i-compile. What it needs to run is a webserver that can interpret PHP (ie. Apache, nginx, etc). Install a webserver then read the PHP documentation on how to add the PHP module sa imo webserver. It will be extremely difficult to newbies, but is a necessary pain to endure if you want to start right. And I will always believe in starting out right.

If you get stuck, ask here for specific question. Or Google. Chances are other people have succeeded where you are failing and have posted their solutions online.

Learning the language itself (if you're already a programmer of some other language) will be easier than you think as it is a language based on and built on C. Setting it up manually will provide a good foundation of the basics that you need to understand when working with PHP.

in reality this will only applicable for setting up an intranet webserver, its a pain in the a$$ to setup a LAMP server specially for those who havent tried it, but most of the times the web host is doing it for you so XAMPP might do the trick... but still for web developer dapat sad jud naa idea on you can setup a server from ground up para atleast ug maka sugat uroy kang employer nga ingana ang setup... atleast kabalo na... i was lucky lang naka experience ko ug setup yug web server from ground up... but like i sad it was pain in a$$ libug jud if dili ta maanad...

btw LAMP is not like xampp or wamp, it is similar sa package but it has to be setup manually and from ground up...

[kamahak]

in reality this will only applicable for setting up an intranet webserver, its a pain in the a$$ to setup a LAMP server specially for those who havent tried it, but most of the times the web host is doing it for you so XAMPP might do the trick...

Wrong. It is not "only applicable for setting up an intranet webserver". You will want to setup a local webserver for you to be able to test your code quickly. Otherwise, you'll have to keep uploading your code to your webhost. There are so many things wrong with that process, I don't want to have to list them out for you.

Also, it's supposed to be a pain in the ass. How else would you expect people to learn this stuff? And even then, it's not really as bad as you make it out to be. You already even have it better than older programmers. We didn't have all this resource available to us back on a click of the button. We had to buy/borrow/steal and read through books. We didn't have powerful internet connections and a plethora of online tutorials and guides. So, it's not that hard to figure it out. Even for total newbies.

but still for web developer dapat sad jud naa idea on you can setup a server from ground up para atleast ug maka sugat uroy kang employer nga ingana ang setup... atleast kabalo na... i was lucky lang naka experience ko ug setup yug web server from ground up

Exactly, bsan ikaw kay ni-agi jd ana. And ayaw ko ingna wala ka ma lipay nga ni agi ka ato.

btw LAMP is not like xampp or wamp, it is similar sa package but it has to be setup manually and from ground up...

LAMP and WAMP are the same as they mean Linux/Windows-Apache-MySQL-PHP. It's an abbreviation for common webserver setups. XAMPP and WAMPserver are applications that autmagically installs a working webserver on your local machine. They also come with a GUI that make manipulating your webserver easier.

Just thought I'd clear that up a bit.

[Rickstar13]

there are a lot of step by step video tutorials on youtube. search lng didto.