Server Side PHP Web Development (Malcolm Bryant)
May 24, 2010
There are a few important tips that can be used and you may not be aware of when starting to use PHP web development. PHP is a type of programming or scripting language used to create web pages and web applications. The full name of PHP is hypertext preprocessor. PHP tends to generally run on servers that use Linux code, which is pretty much all of them.
PHP scripting is used on Linux systems so you can save a lot of time and hassle by developing the code on a Linux system instead of converting the code from a Windows system. Linux is very versatile and you can run Linux on any type of system but there are some few differences that can make converting code and links from windows to Linux.
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 is also advisable that you use CVS or SVN. This will save different versions so you can go back and restore older versions of your website. This is important if you should change something and it is not as good or doesn't work.
Many times SVN is used when you have several different people developing the same site. This then will merge all of the work into one file so that you can see any issues or conflicts.
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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