On 07.08.2015 at 01:37, Justisaur wrote:
> I learned BASIC and was pretty good with it about 25 years ago, but
> haven't done much programming since. I've done quite a lot of
> dos/windows batch files and done some stuff with AutoHotKey. HTTP I
> was pretty good with about 20 years ago, haven't used it a lot, but
> it's come in handy at least recognizing it. I've done some stuff
> that probably looks more like using Excel as a database. I've been
> doing Desktop Support for about 10 years (should've moved on to
> something more advanced long ago).
It seems to me that is a useful base. :)
Um, Moodle? AFAIK Moodle is a learning platform, i.e. a special
application. It seems to me that you're looking for a general
programming platform for web applications.
> So far I keep ending up with mis-matching versions, x64 with x86
> versions and it's not working yet. I got an error installing Apache
> where I had to stop IIS (which I don't remember installing, but the
> computer is a couple years old, and I may have installed it for
> python).
You may want to try XAMPP, which offers a full-fledged development
environment for PHP. However, for the most basic steps, it might be
sufficient to install only a recent version of PHP, and to use its
built-in webserver. Just download a Windows binary[1], unzip it, add
the folder to your PATH, start a console and do
php -S localhost:8888
Then power up a browser and request <
http://localhost:8888/>. This will
serve index.php|html of the current working directory where you've
started PHP. See also
<
http://php.net/manual/en/features.commandline.webserver.php>.
Anyhow, for web development you'll want to learn HTML and at least some
basic CSS.
[1] <
http://windows.php.net/download/>
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Christoph M. Becker