A. Installation and Configuration
The three technical requirements for executing all of this book’s examples are PHP, the scripting language; the web server application that PHP runs through; and MySQL, the database application. This appendix describes the installation of these tools on two different platforms—Windows 10 and Mac OS X. If you are using a hosted website, 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 the installation section, this appendix demonstrates some basics for working with MySQL and configuring PHP. The PHP and MySQL manuals cover installation and configuration in a reasonable amount of detail. You may ...
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