Building Interactive Websites With PHP (Jake Smith)
Jul 23, 2010
If you are new to PHP web development then a few little known tips can help your process greatly as well as avoid a few mistakes. PHP development uses a scripting language to create web pages and web applications. PHP actually stands for hypertext preprocessor and PHP pages can be used on most serves as the vast majority is configured to accept and use PHP based web pages.
When using PHP for web development it is best to use a Linux operating system, as this is the type of server that can use PHP. PHP runs off of Linux so why would you develop it on a Windows operating system. The big difficulty that can occur is the Linux servers are case sensitive and Windows are not so you may have problems when getting your application up and running.
The big problem when not developing your page on a Linux system is the fact that Linux is case sensitive while Windows is not. This means if you have upper and lowercase letters in your links they might not work when you have transferred everything over to a Linux system or server. It will then take more time as you need to go through everything to fix the problem.
It can also save you a lot of time by using CVS or SVN. These programs will save the many different versions of your application or web pages so that you can access them if needed. For web development this is important as you will make changes that need to be erased.
Instead of having to undo the code you can go back to an earlier saved version. Many times SVN is used when more than one person is working on a web site.
If you are just starting to use PHP to develop your web page then creating the application in the same environment as the web server can make the whole process a lot easier as can being able to access older versions of your web page.
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