Appendix A. Installation
If you are developing Web applications on your own server (home computer), you will most likely need to install the requisite software first. If you are using a Web host, they’ll have already done this for you.
As I mentioned in the introduction to the book, there are three technical requirements: MySQL (the database application), PHP (the scripting language), and a Web server (that runs PHP code). In this appendix I will cover the installation of these tools on two different platforms—Windows and Macintosh—which should cover most readers.
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