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[wolf99]

Hi
I have just started tckling PHP, but will shortly be moving to a restricted environmentwhere I cannot downloaf programs and have no server access. to continue learning is there anywhere online that could be used to sinulate PHP debugging and output?

I am currently using a PHP Designer 2006 with xampp for debug, and I know xamp won't be let run in the restricted environment.

Also does anyone know any good sites for and amature to start with PHP?

[sde]

What OS do you use? If you're on windows 2000, XP, or 2003, you can install PHP on your system and use IIS to run it.

I would say this is a good site for people to ask questions, but other than that, I would say that http://php.net/ is a valuable resource.

Other than that, picking up a good PHP book might be a good idea. Books usually offer a throrough and structured approach to the many different features of PHP. WROX is one of my favorite publishers. APress has a lot of good PHP books too.

[teknomage1]

If you download and burn this cd http://lamppix.tinowagner.com/ , you can use it to boot to a linux srver environment with PHP and Apache. When you're done, you just reboot and remove the disk and the machine is back to normal.