php howto
PHP is really versatile, but mostly used in websites where you want to use dynamic data, like from a mysql database and then display it as html in a browser. Nowadays most people use php5, which you can install like:
apt-get install php5 |
if you want to know what options are enabled after that (in your /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini) from command line do:
php -i | less |
If you want to code php on your computer, you can use something like Eclipse, which is really great and free, but can be pretty confusing, and you still may have to upload it to a server to get it run, usually with FTP, so hopefully that’s installed on your server where your website is uploaded to.
Php has to be enabled on your webserver too, usually with apache2 (or nginx). You can make sure it’s enabled by installing:
apt-get install libapache2-mod-php5 |