Beginner: AJAX and PHP ... Developing them Offline. How?

Question

I've been programming with PHP for a long time now, well a few months ago. I stopped doing it because of work, and because of another hobby, video editing.

Now, I wanted to try PHP again, and probably just "refresh* my knowledge about it. I really wanted to make websites, specially my own website.

Now I downloaded XAMPPLite and WAMPServer, to see which of the two really works best.

I know there's a PHP Manual available for download, for Offline use. I downloaded it directly at the PHP Website.

Since I'm on dial-up right now, I really needed everything to be offline. Where can I get tutorials, manuals or guides for AJAX, PHP+AJAX, XHTML and CSS?

Also, I use EditPlus with alot of Add-ons. Can you recommend another editor? A good one, that is being used nowadays? I think EditPlus is a thing of the past.

Thanks everyone and waiting for you're reply.

Answer 1

My suggestion would be to use WAMPServer. You can use phpmyadmin to make MySQL databases and logins. Just put anything you want in the www directory. So if you have a folder blah, if you put it in C:\wamp\www\blah, you can browse to it in http:\\localhost\blah.



The best web books I've ever bought are the "XHTML/CSS in 24 Hours books". Not literally a day (unless your nuts) but 24 exercises that take an hour each. Good straightforward teaching with a reference manual for tags, etc. in the back.



HTMLKit is good for an editor with a builtin renderer. I love jEdit when I work with XHTML/CSS/PHP because it highlights the syntax well. Both are freeware.



Hope this helps!

Answer 2

You'll have to set up our own web environment. This is actually a lot easier than it sounds. The tools you want are Apache web server, with PHP installed and MySQL. This is all freely downloaded from the web and happily run on Windows while sucking down a minimum of resources.



Visit these sites for information on how to do this:



http://httpd.apache.org/

http://www.php.net/

http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/

Answer 3

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