Windows Development Environment
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For our windows development environment; we’ll be setting up a server to handle all the finicky screws and bolts for our new site. Think of a server as a computer or a computer program which manages the access and the control of our web resources. Essentially, it’s a computer or computer program that handles/hosts the files needed to build our site. Get it?! … A website is a collection of files and data, put together to build what we see on the web browser.
Alright .. Okay …
For windows; we’ll be using a very helpful piece of software called Xampp; which does a great job of mimicking an apache (open source) server on your machine. Xampp is a good PHP development environment and will help us in our journey to web development heaven (yeh I said it; I said heaven).
Now … let’s get to it.
![installing xampp - one](/storage/app/media/installing-xampp-1-300x176-article.png)
![installing xampp - two message](/storage/app/media/installing-xampp-2-300x130.png)
![installing xampp -three pressphp](/storage/app/media/installing-xampp-5-300x239.png)
![installing xampp -three pressphp](/storage/app/media/installing-xampp-81-300x239.png)
![xampp control panel](/storage/app/media/xampp-control-panel-1.png)
![xampp control panel](/storage/app/media/xampp-control-panel-1.png)
![xampp control panel](/storage/app/media/xampp-control-panel-3-300x175.png)
![xampp control panel](/storage/app/media/xampp-phpmyadmin-login-300x288.png)
"A database is a collection of tables with varied columns and rows to store data"
The Village Geek
![xampp control panel](/storage/app/media/xampp-web-panel-welcome-300x175.png)
![xampp control panel](/storage/app/media/xampp-security-console-300x291.png)
![xampp control panel](/storage/app/media/database-create-phpmyadmin-navbar-300x82.png)
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