Friday 23 September 2011

Using PHP And MySQL To Create Dynamic Sites

By Henry Albertson


If you are new to PHP web development then a few little known tips can help your process greatly as well as avoid a few mistakes. PHP development uses a scripting language to create web pages and web applications. PHP actually stands for hypertext preprocessor and PHP pages can be used on most serves as the vast majority is configured to accept and use PHP based web pages.

PHP scripting is used on Linux systems so you can save a lot of time and hassle by developing the code on a Linux system instead of converting the code from a Windows system. Linux is very versatile and you can run Linux on any type of system but there are some few differences that can make converting code and links from windows to Linux.

If your code and links should use different case letters then any of the links will not work. However if you develop the application on Linux then all of your links and code will work and you won't have to spend extra time changing the links in order to get the page to work. This step is easily avoidable and can make your PHP develop much faster at the beginning.

It can also save you a lot of time by using CVS or SVN. These programs will save the many different versions of your application or web pages so that you can access them if needed. For web development this is important as you will make changes that need to be erased.

You can simply go back and restore the version that does work. This is also handy if you have multiple people working on the same web page as it will compile all of the different peoples work.

If you are just starting to use PHP to develop your web page then creating the application in the same environment as the web server can make the whole process a lot easier as can being able to access older versions of your web page.




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