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Is there programs or a way to run PHP/CGI/MySQL/HTML and other web programming languages offline? I am trying to learn website design, and uploading accumulates a very precious part of my time, and being able to run the modified file offline would be a -very- great timesaver. Is there anyway to install PHP, MySQL and the other languages to your computer so that you may work on things offline, like I said?

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Yes. You need to get a webserver, such as Apache, the PHP Engine, and the MySQL Database Engine. They are all free, but require a bit of customizing to install on your local system. You could also try IIS, which is included with Windows XP; but Apache is much, much better. If you are planning to host your website from your own machine, which you can easily do, then I would recommend you have a Windows NT-based operating system (NT/2000/XP/2003/etc). And you obviously need a relatively fast connection.

 

If you want a pre-configured, ready-to-run package that has everything you need (as well as a lot of stuff you don't need), try XAMPP from ApacheFriends.

 

Oh, and HTML doesn't require anything server-side. It is interpreted purely by the browser, so it depends on what the client is running.

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Thanks a bunch Spectre. I do not plan on hosting my website from my local machine, as I cannot keep it up 24/7, and cannot afford a domain name (and I don't feel like giving out my IP Address for security reasons.)I hopefully plan to have this all installed soon, but fo rhte mean time, I have bookmarked the links.

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you can get free .tk domain names but i cant remember where from

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you answered your own question there tasty :D, go to http://www.dot.tk/en/index.html?lang=en and you can signup for free .tk domains, you will get 3 free and if you want more then you can pay for them i guess, also http://www.namezero.com/ used to offer free domain names and by that i mean like http://www.yourdomain.com/ ^^, I think they may still offer it, they like to hide it tho, but maybe they stopped offering it. But i can vouxh that they gave me a free domain a while ago and it was wicked, now i need a place to host it and well, this is post #1/50 so im on my way. Hope that helped.

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Checkout this new tool too:

PHP Runner : http://www.iranwebdesigning.com/

PHP Runner is a simple but useful program to preview a PHP file easily without saving or uploading  to server or using other programs to run your designed file. PHP Runner has a friendly interface with useful tools like as most used PHP functions' buttons to make scripting more easier and faster.

Download this program for free . also see some screen shots of this program.

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i did try to install php mysql etc in my computer....
i dun think u need a public domain...
u can build a domain...but not out for public...
so u dun need a hosting....
and u can run all the file u want in that http://localhost
but depend if yr scripts require a different system...
so i usually do all of those in my linux system...
but it is quite annoying sometime to restart the pc and change OS...
i just a newbie to all of these...
so sorry if i made some mistakes here....

and i tried so software aswell...and they are all quite good..
as amir_ac said PHPdev ...i think it is a good one...

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I am using PHP triad, and it is working fine for 1 year. Unfortunately, it is now turned into shareware, so, you will have to dig up an older version somewhere. In order to start the (local) apache web server, you just run a console program, and the whole thing is up and running. There is a small mySQL service program included also.

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