November 2017
Intermediate to advanced
705 pages
26h 56m
English
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A. Installation
In This Appendix
There are three technical requirements for executing all this book’s examples: MySQL (the database application), PHP (the scripting language), and the web server application (that PHP runs through). This appendix describes the installation of these tools on two different platforms—Windows 10 and macOS. If you are using a hosted web site, all of this will already be provided for you, but these products are all free and easy enough to install, so putting them on your own computer still makes sense.
After covering installation, the appendix discusses related issues that will be of importance ...