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Offline roasthawg

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Getting started?
« on: May 31, 2010, 11:37:14 AM »
So I have a quick question from a complete php novice.  I'm messing around with web design in my spare time and have a decent grasp of html right now.  What I want to do is create a form that a user can submit by email using php.  I'm creating my entire webpage using notebook and saving it to a "webpage" folder on my desktop.  When I try to send the form information to a "form.php" page it keeps saying it can't find the file when I run it through my browser.  Do I have to install some version of php on my computer to get it to work?  Thanks in advance for your help!!
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Offline Sergey Popov

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Re: Getting started?
« Reply #1 on: June 04, 2010, 08:38:11 AM »
Yes, you need web server installed and running on your computer (for example Apache), and PHP as well.
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Offline rzuman

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Re: Getting started?
« Reply #2 on: June 06, 2010, 12:06:04 PM »
Even better, try setting up WAMP

Ill explain: its a package of programs to run a webserver.

Windows
Apache
MySQL
PHP

You can setup wamp and have a running Apache (webserver) with PHP support and
when you get further in developing even a MySQL database!
You only need to install it, configure it, and put all your files in the WWW folder.
then visit 127.0.0.1 in your browser and you got a fully working website and you can test your PHP pages there. Remember this is only usefull for testing, or you want to keep your computer online 24/7 but i recommend a webhost.

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http://www.wampserver.com/en/
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