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大连交通大学2013届本科生毕业设计（论文）外文翻译 PAGE \* MERGEFORMAT 9外文原文Setting Up the PHP Development EnvironmentGetting a working development environment put together can be intimidating, especially for the absolute beginner.To follow along with the project in this book, you’ll need to have access to a working installation of Apache, PHP, and MySQL, preferably on your local machine. It’s always desirable to test locally, both for speed and security. Doing this both shelters your work-in-progress from the open Internet and decreases the amount of time spent uploading files to an FTP server and waiting for pages to reload.Why You Need Apache, MySQL, and PHPPHP is a powerful scripting language that can be run by itself in the command line of any computer with PHP installed. However, PHP alone isnt enough in order to build dynamic web sites. To use PHP on a web site, you need a server that can process PHP scripts. Apache is a free web server that, once installed on a computer, allows developers to test PHP scripts locally; this makes it an invaluable piece of your local development environment.Additionally, dynamic websites are dependent on stored information that can be modified quickly and easily; this is the main difference between a dynamic site and a static HTML site. However, PHP doesn’t provide a simple, efficient way to store data. This is where a relational database management system like MySQL comes into play. This book’s examples rely on MySQL; I chose this database because PHP provides native support for it and the database is free, open-source project.It runs in both 32-bit and 64-bit environments, but on Windows the only official distribution is 32-bit, requiring Windows 32-bit compatibility mode to be enabled while using IIS in a 64-bit Windows environment. There is a third-party distribution available for 64-bit Windows. PHP is a general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for web development. PHP generally runs on a web server, taking PHP code as its i