Wappler PHP environment set up

#1

Hi everyone,

Although I purchased Wappler Pro from the start I have not had the opportunity to dive in yet, I’m coming off Dreamweaver CS6, creating classic ASP web sites.

PHP will be new to me, so my questions to you is what’s the best set up for Wappler on a windows 10 pc already set up using classic asp, IIS to set up a PHP environment? is there a bundle of certain programs needed that I can download somewhere? I;m currently using ms SQL, should I also set up mySQL? can I run both classic ASP and PHP at the same time? and last question…is there a conversion available to take current classic asp sites and covert to PHP?

I appreciate the help so I can finally dive in. Thanks in advance.
Amedeo

Wappler 4.9.0 Released
#2

To some extent, I would base things on your target server if possible. If you have to deal with a variety of servers, then this is probably not relevant.

I only ever use Apache (on Linux), MySQL and PHP, so WAMP (http://www.wampserver.com/en/) is probably the simplest way to start on Windows. In a single package, it offers most of what you need - a web server, MySQL and PHP. To give you an idea, here’s the menu which pops up from the tray icon:

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It has very useful features - eg you have quick access to the configuration files and can switch versions of PHP in a couple of seconds.

In addiition to this, I use Navicat for managing MySQL (setting up databases and testing queries etc.). Navicat can also be used with SQL Server and various others types of database.

I’m afraid I don’t know much about ASP, but I’m sure you can run it alongside PHP. I think you can run Apache alongside IIS too.

#3

If you open IIS manager you’ll be promoted to run Microsoft Web Platform Installer and from the resulting dialog you can add php along with many features to your web server.

More info
https://www.microsoft.com/web/downloads/platform.aspx

#4

Thanks for all the info, I’ll look into both suggestions.

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