Guest Anonymous Posted April 7, 2008 Posted April 7, 2008 Editors Editors are very much about personal choice - There are lots to choose from, although I personally recommend syntax highlighting editors. They can pick up mistakes before testing or compiling code. Under MS Windows, my personal favorite was EditPlus, although under unix I use GEdit (part of the Gnome Suite) Browsers Again browsers are a bit of a personal thing, but really FireFox is IMO, the best. With several great extensions like WebDeveloper - worth it's weight in gold to any web designer - it's just an all round great product. Manuals Okay, so I admit it... I'm a closet manual reader. I refer back to a lot of manuals and have read them all through thoroughly several times. You may occasionally see people suggesting you RTFM -- Read the frakking manual!!! - I say RATFM - Read *ALL* the frakking manual. Anyway, what you need here is of course the PHP manual, the MySQL manual, CSS and (X)HTML manuals and perhaps even a JavaScript Manual. Yes, I know it's a lot of reading material, but trust me, it's worth it in the long run. Coffee You think I'm joking? I live on strong coffee when I get my serious programming head on... :D Get a good one though - nice rich dark turkish is ideal for around 5am... A local server This is without a doubt *the* best way to work - none of this download files... edit... upload... - try it all on your own computer first. For windows there's two big solutions that I'm aware of: WampServer and XAMPP. and for Linux/Unix of course we all use Apache + PHP + MySQL. The two windows solutions are complete - everything built in, the unix people... well hopefully you'll find them pretty easy to install. I've not looked at the windows solutions for a while, although I believe they are well supported and are easy to install. Running a local server gives you great facilities - testing code locally, experimenting, it's all there at your fingertips and nobody but you can see the results. References EditPlus - http://www.editplus.com/ GEdit - http://www.gnome.org/projects/gedit/ Firefox - http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/ Web Developer (Plugin for FireFox) - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/60 PHP Manual - http://www.php.net/manual/en/index.php MySQL Manual - http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/index.html HTML Manual - http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/ XHTML Manual - http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/ CSS Manual - http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/ JavaScript Manual - http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/ WampServer - http://www.wampserver.com/en/ XAMPP - http://sourceforge.net/projects/xampp/ Apache - http://httpd.apache.org/ PHP - http://www.php.net/ MySQL - http://www.mysql.com/ Quote
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