Getting Started: PHP Web Development

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Getting Started PHP Web Development

• Bill Barnett
• ProbascoSoft IT Solutions
• lt bill.barnett_at_probascosoft.comgt
• OINK-PUG
• April 21, 2005

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• Open source stacks such as XAMPP from Apache
  Friends are simplifying open source development
  by making it easier to write and distribute
  applications in a stable and standardized
  environment. Traditionally, AMPP -- Apache,
  MySQL, PHP, and Perl -- have all been installed
  and configured as separate products. The trend of
  combining them into integrated middleware stacks
  promises to make open source development more
  competitive with J2EE application development,
  at least for low-end applications.

• Java 2 Enterprise Edition dramatically changed
  the software landscape by providing an integrated
  middleware stack that greatly simplified the task
  of writing and deploying Java applications.
• Open source stacks such as XAMPP are still quite
  simple and rudimentary when compared with J2EE,
  but they are nevertheless an important step on
  the way to fuller systems integration.
• PHP 5.0 (which makes PHP fully object oriented)
  is a good indicator that this trend will
  accelerate.

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Introducing XAMPP 1

• It is easy to install and set up.
• It contains a number of useful packages that make
  it easy to do things like generate traffic
  reports and accelerate PHP content.
• It has been thoroughly tested on the SUSE, Red
  Hat, Mandrake, and Debian Linux distributions, as
  well as on Windows and Solaris.

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Introducing XAMPP 1

• Basic packages include system, programming, and
  server software
• Apache, the famous Web server
• MySQL, an excellent, free, open source database
• PHP, the programming language (in versions 4.3.8
  and 5.0.1 at the time of this writing)
• Perl, the programming language
• ProFTPD, an FTP server
• OpenSSL, for secure sockets layer support

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Introducing XAMPP 1

• XAMPP includes the following graphics-related
  packages
• GD, the "Graphics Draw" library
• libpng, the official PNG reference library
• libjpeg, the official JPEG reference library
• ncurses, the character graphics library

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Introducing XAMPP 1

• And what would an integrated stack be without
  some database packages such as
• gdbm, the GNU implementation of the standard
  UNIX dbm library
• SQLite, an extremely small, zero-configuration
  SQL database engine
• FreeTDS, a database library that gives UNIX and
  Linux programs the ability to talk to Microsoft
  SQL and Sybase databases

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Introducing XAMPP 1

• For XML development, XAMPP includes the
  following
• expat, an XML parser library
• Salbotron, an XML toolkit
• libxml, an XML C parser and toolkit for GNOME

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Introducing XAMPP 1

• For PHP development, XAMPP includes the
  following
• PEAR, the PHP library
• A pdf class that generates dynamic PDF documents
  with PHP
• TURCK MMCache, a PHP performance enhancer

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Introducing XAMPP 1

• And finally, XAMPP demonstrates its versatility
  by including the following packages
• zlib, a compression library
• mod_perl, which embeds a persistent Perl
  interpreter in Apache
• gettext, a toolset that assists GNU packages in
  producing multi-lingual messages
• mcrypt, an encryption program
• Ming, a Flash (SWF) output library
• Freetype2, a software font engine
• IMAP C-Client, a mail program API

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Enough already!

• I got XAMPP let the install begin!!!

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Installation complete!
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XAMPP Control
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Starting Apache MySQL
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Were up!
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Check the Status
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Lets secure MySQL
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Using phpMyAdmin
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Update query complete
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Update phpMyAdmin
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More about security

• Check the Security link
• XAMPP demo pages
• phpMyAdmin
• PHP Safe Mode

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The Eclipse IDE

• The goal of Eclipse is to define for the
  industry a development platform which is freely
  licensed, open source and provides support for
  the full breadth of the application lifecycle, in
  many disparate problem domains, across the
  development and deployment platforms of choice.

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But what does it do?

• Provides support for multiple operating
  environments and multiple programming languages.
  Such as
• Java
• C/C
• Modeling (BPM) Testing (XUnit)
• Web Tools (including PHP!)
• All this on any OS with a JVM.

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Im convinced!

• Lets get it!!!
• Eclipse SDK
• PHPEclipse
• And install it!!!

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Installation is E-A-S-Y!!!
You do have a JVM, dont you?
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Select Your Workspace
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Voilá!
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Wheres the PHP Perspective?!
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Adding PHPeclipse
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A Caveat!

• Note Eclipse 3.x caches all plugin.xml files
  into a single repository for quicker loading. If
  you used eclipse before installing PHPeclipse,
  you should start eclipse once with the -clean
  option. This -clean forces Eclipse to rebuild
  that repository. This applies to anything that is
  installed into eclipse by unzipping it into its
  plugins folder. 2

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Ah, The Command Line
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One Quick ( Handy) Apache Configuration Change
DEVELOPMENT ENVIRONMENT ONLY!!!
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Lets Create A Project!
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HmmmWhat Would Be A Good Name?
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Finally, An Index File
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Is That Cool?!
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References

• 1 Frantzell, Nils-Erik. Install XAMPP for easy,
  integrated development. 30 Nov. 2004. April 2005.
  lthttp//www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/libra
  ry/l-xampp/gt.
• 2 PHPeclipse installation for Eclipse 3.x. 4
  Dec. 2004. April 2005. lthttp//phpeclipse.de/tiki-
  index.php?pagePHPeclipseinstallationforEclipse
  3.xgt.

Resources
ApacheFriends.Org (XAMPP) - http//www.apachefrien
ds.org/en/ PHPeclipse - http//www.phpeclipse.de/
phpMyAdmin - http//www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page
/index.php Eclipse Perl Integration -
http//e-p-i-c.sourceforge.net/ (Excellent
regular expression checker!)
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