Beginning PHP and MySQL: From Novice to Professional

© Frank M. Kromann 2018

Frank M. KromannBeginning PHP and MySQLhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4302-6044-8_2

2. Configuring Your Environment

Frank M. Kromann¹ 

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Aliso Viejo, CA, USA

 

PHP was designed and created to generate dynamic content injected into HTML documents or generate complete HTML documents that are served by a web server. The web server is typically a physical server connected to the Internet or a virtual or shared server in a data center. As a developer, you will also require a local environment used for development and testing of the web pages you are developing before they are deployed to the server. Because PHP is available on a large number of systems and supports a large number of web servers, it will not be possible to cover all ...