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Interview with the Team Behind PHPanywhere

Posted on 13. Nov, 2009 by srikanth.

Recently we reviewed PHPanywhere, which is a free web based PHP IDE that enables you to develop and maintain your PHP applications online. I got an opportunity to get in touch with the team behind PHPanywhere to answer a few questions about this intriguing application.

Take a look at the interview after the break.

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How To Set Up a Local Web Server on Your Mac Using MAMP

Posted on 15. Jul, 2009 by Douglas Reynolds.

MAMP, which is an acronym for Mac Apache MySQL PHP, is an application which sets up a local Web server development environment in a matter of minutes.  It includes support for all of the servers listed as part of its name (support for SQLite is also included).

MAMP provides three basic necessities for any Web application; being a Web server, a database server, and a Web application server – Apache, MySQL, and PHP respectively.  Although Apple ships Mac computers with these three servers pre-installed, setup and configuration is not abstracted into a configuration interface as provided by MAMP.

MAMP installation is simple, lets go through the process together.

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