Mord's Blog

To test stuff, you can do that on your machine, if you have a server (i.e. Apache). It would be fairly ridiculous to ftp stuff to dreamhost just to test a web page. If you're just learning PHP for fun, I'd download something like WAMP or XAMPP (depending on your operating system) to get you going really easily. If you're feeling ambitious, you can compile them all separately and try to get them to talk to each other via the configuration files. It's quite the learning process.

I'll take a look at WAMP a bit later. Although the enthusiasm has dulled a bit lately since dreamhosters has apparently killed off their Apache php stuff in the meantime. Meaning even if I rewrite my site for php, I can't actually put it up there and have it work it seems. I still plan on doing the redesign however, so using WAMP to build it up offline until I'm ready to find a new hosting service. No big rush on it now tho so I'm probably going to go back to working on code for a while.