New php student

[anienham]

hellp php help forum.

I’m currently taking a 6-week class called Introduction to PHP.
I’ve been advised by the instructor to install WAMP which I’ve done.
Also to get an editor, preferably one that will do SFTP/FTP.
I’m opting to take a look at both WYSIWYG an text editors.
I think that I may be able to use Microsoft Visual Web Developer since I already have it installed.
Not sure whether it has SFTP/FTP capabilities yet. I’m checking. If someone here is already familiar
with this editor, please advise me if it has SFTP/FTP.

Sooo, I’m hoping things work out for me. Wish me luck.
Anie

[ErnieAlex]

Well, Anie, your WAMP is a “local” server system. So, the files are just saved on your own computer.
For testing, your httpdocs folder or whatever you set it to will be on your hard disk. So, you can just
open a folder or create a shortcut to the folder on your desktop. Then, open your files directly and bypass
using FTP. ( Of course, if you do not need to upload to a hosting site! ) Hope that helped!

[anienham]

Thanks for the reply, Ernie Alex.

I wound up getting a FTP client and FTP server from FileZilla.
I will have to read how this will be used with my work.
I wound up getting Microsoft Expression Web 4 as my text editor
since I already have it. It also has FTP capabilities.
Just not sure how they are to be used yet.
This is new for me.
It will be required to use both FTP client and server for the class.

One of the first assignments is to find a free FTP server and upload my script phpinfo.php to the server.
So I hope to learn how to set this up properly. Wish me luck

Anie