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I’m sure this is going to sound really stupid and honestly, I don’t know much about php and mysql (nuts and bolts). I was a COBOL / PL1 datbase programmer in my previous life so I know how to code, but I don’t understand the dabase admin. stuff and all the environment variables, etc.
Thus far, I’ve been creating my php pages on my home computer (W2k Server) and then ftping them up and testing online – not terribly efficient. I have several sites that I’ve added a database to and use the php for the queries, and updates.
So, in browsing through the forum, I found this link:
[url]http://www.appservnetwork.com/
to install
PHP 4.3.10
Apache 1.3.33
MySQL 4.1.8
Zend Optimizer 2.5.7
phpMyAdmin 2.6.1-rc2
I have no desire to have my machine serve out a database. What I’d like to be able to do is run my pages from my desktop w/ the sql code and php and test them here, rather than uploading each change.
My other difficulty is my reseller account has phpMyAdmin but it keeps coming back w/ page not able to display about 80% of the time so I can’t use it to update the database. I either have to run a sql statement from phpMyAdmin or do it from a webpage. For example, I needed to delete 5 records and it wouldn’t let me check and delete them all or check and delete 1 at a time. Another example is I had to add a target=”_blank” to some the html code in the records. It affected about 10 records, and I could 5 of them updated, but the other 5 kept bringing back the not able to display. I finally had to write a sql update statement for it.
So would installing the above package solve any of my issues? And if so, would it create any additional problems for me on my home computer.
Thanks again.
Michelle