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Asked: 2026-05-11T16:53:48+00:00

I’m beginning PHP development, and I’m looking at picking brains for ideas and best

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I’m beginning PHP development, and I’m looking at picking brains for ideas and best practices, and also website resrouces, such as http://www.w3schools.com

Yes, it has to be PHP as that’s the existing website technology that’s being used.

I’m using Windows, although I’ll be doing development on a Virtual Machine, maybe Virtual PC or Virtual Box running Windows 2000 or XP, or maybe Vista.

I’m an experienced VB6 and SQL Server developer, so I can use SQL Server as the back-end running on my host laptop, or I can use mySQL maybe. I’m thinking using SQL Server to start with would remove one layer of complexity, and allow me to concentrate on the webserver (Apache, maybe ?) and PHP and not have to worry too much about the database, as all that will be completely natural to me.

Framework recommendations, and one or two examples of what you have used them for will be appreciated.

Source and version control frameworks, tools, utilities and add-ins would also be appreciated.

I’m going to consider writing an answer to this question myself with my experiences as I get started, almost like a ‘how-to’ step-by-step guide so that anyone in the future who wants to do the same thing can get going even quicker.

Thanks in advance, gurus.

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  1. Editorial Team

    First thing I suggest you do is read How Is PHP Done the Right Way?

    For source control, Subversion is a decent place to start.

    You will need Firefox plus Firebug. Also look at What’s in your web-developer toolbox? and Free tools to speed up web development.

    In regards to frameworks, start with Choosing the right PHP framework.

    You probably should consider Javascript frameworks too, in which case start with JavaScript frameworks and CSS frameworks: JQuery, YUI, neither, or something else? and Which Javascript framework (jQuery vs Dojo vs … )?

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