PHP

PHP is a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML.

ASP

When you are looking for the PHP equivalents to ASP, ther are several sites giving solutions:

• PHP Everywhere PHP Equivalents for ASP Objects. The site has references to other language comparison such as JavaScript and VBScript and Class Syntax.

Mac OSX

The location of php.ini is in /private/etc. If it is not there then

 sudo cp /private/etc/php.ini.default /private/etc/php.ini

Pear

Pear is the installation tool for PHP. To install pear please note that:

• Environment variable for PHP are available:
  • PHP_BIN: Should be the full path tp PHP.exe, i.e. f:\wamp\bin\php\php5.3.0\php.exe
  • Use the go-pear.phar, and be aware to go to the directory containing this file.
  • Keep notice of the changes in the environment for pear.

See also:

• Pear.php.net, Installation manual.

Mac Pear

From: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8333279/phpunit-warning-requirephpunit-autoload-php-failed-to-open-stream-no-such
I hit a similar issue on MAC OSX Lion. I installed phpunit with the PEAR package manager, and when I try to run it I got the error as described by udo. I was able to resolve it with the following simple steps:

1. Get the latest php archive of pear

   curl http://pear.php.net/go-pear.phar > go-pear.php

2. Install the archive with

   sudo php -q go-pear.php

During installation, it detects if the include_path in your php.ini does not contain the PEAR PHP directory. You can choose to let it fix it for you automatically when given the option.
Comments
By Howard Lo
Cool thanks, I'd like to add something, after these steps I had to install phpunit again using the following commands:

 sudo pear channel-discover pear.phpunit.de 
 sudo pear channel-discover components.ez.no 
 sudo pear channel-discover pear.symfony-project.com 
 sudo pear install phpunit/PHPUnit 

Sebastian Perez Feb 16 at 15:43

Mac Pear Alternative

On Mac OS 10.4 and earlier, the PEAR Package Manager is already installed in /usr/bin/pear.

To install your version of pear, get the latest version of pear into a writeable directory:

  cd /Downloads
  curl http://pear.php.net/go-pear.phar > go-pear.php

To make it easier got to the directory here to install. For example:

 cd /usr/local/bin
 php -d detect_unicode=0 /Downloads/go-pear.phar

Add the directories to the path in your .profile.

# Add some more custom software to PATH.
PATH=/usr/local/pear/bin:$PATH
export PATH

PHPUnit

PHPUnit is equivalent to JUnit. To install PHPUnit with pear use the commands:

• pear config-set auto_discover 1
• pear install pear.phpunit.de/PHPUnit

See also:

• phpunit.de, homepage of PHPUnit.

W3 Schools

The W3 Schools has a specific site for PHP. Nice to learn the language and also a reference how to use the language.

WAMP

WAMP stands for Windows Apache Mysql and PHP. It is often use because it is the most simple implementation of a web-server (Apache), a Database (MySQL) and a programming language (PHP) on the windows environment.

• Howto upgrade: WAMP.

Smarty

Smarty is a template engine for PHP, facilitating the separation of presentation (HTML/CSS) from application logic. This implies that PHP code is application logic, and is separated from the presentation.
The Smarty design is based on the philosophy:

• clean separation of presentation from application code
• PHP backend, Smarty template frontend
• compliment PHP, not replace it
• fast development/deployment for programmers and designers
• quick and easy to maintain
• syntax easy to understand, no PHP knowledge required
• flexibility for custom development
• security: insulation from PHP
• free, open source

See also

• PHP.net, The PHP Site. Containing downloads, references and manuals.
  • PHP English Manual by: Mehdi Achour, Friedhelm Betz, Antony Dovgal, Nuno Lopes, Hannes Magnusson, Georg Richter,Damien Seguy, Jakub Vrana and several others.
  • PHP Language Reference with example code.
  • PHP Control Structures, The if, else, while, do things...
• PEAR
• PHPLens PHP Everywhere.
• PHP2Net Tutorials
• phpunit.de, PHPUnit testing by Sebastian Bergman. An implementation of JUnit texting for PHP.
• PHP GTK, PHP-GTK is a PHP extension that implements language bindings for GTK+. It provides an object-oriented interface to GTK+ classes and functions and greatly simplifies writing client side cross-platform GUI applications.
• WAMP, Apple OSX Apache Webserver and Windows Apache Webserver, or Apache, MySQL and PHP.

• Sonar, Quality management, metrics, static and dynamic software analysis, now also available for PHP.