Setting up a php testing server on Mac OSX
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Last Post: April 20, 2009 (RSS)
Hi, I wondered if you could help - being a very visual person I would like to preview what I'm doing prior to uploading it onto the live server. I am using Dreamweaver CS3 I was wondering if there was a way of setting up a 'virtual server' on my hard disk so I can preview the php pages I have made with CMSB prior to uploading it to the live site. I was also wondering if there was a way of seeing what the database is doing. I would like to work with CMSB in a slightly more wysiwyg kind of way.... Any ideas? Many thanks in advance...
Re: [chassa2556] Setting up a php testing server on Mac OSX
By ross - September 29, 2008
Hi there.
Thanks for posting!
One way to fully test everything out before going onto the live server would be to setup a web and database server right on your own computer. Have a look with Google for WAMP. This will let you install all the tools needed to test CMS Builder out on your computer.
Let me know what you think [:)].
Thanks for posting!
One way to fully test everything out before going onto the live server would be to setup a web and database server right on your own computer. Have a look with Google for WAMP. This will let you install all the tools needed to test CMS Builder out on your computer.
Let me know what you think [:)].
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Re: [chassa2556] Setting up a php testing server on Mac OSX
Take a look at this link and see if this will help you with installing Apache, PHP and MySQL for Mac OS X. I think this is what you are looking for.
http://www.mamp.info/en/mamp.html
I have used Navicat as an interface to mySQL. It is a great tool and you can get a 30 day trial and see what you think. I have used it to import data from a spreadsheet (Excel) into the mySQL database as well.
See: http://www.navicat.com/
PHPMyAdmin is another tool for managing a mySQL database. See: http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/index.php
I hope this helps. Let us know if we can assist you further.
Kevin
http://www.mamp.info/en/mamp.html
I have used Navicat as an interface to mySQL. It is a great tool and you can get a 30 day trial and see what you think. I have used it to import data from a spreadsheet (Excel) into the mySQL database as well.
See: http://www.navicat.com/
PHPMyAdmin is another tool for managing a mySQL database. See: http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/index.php
I hope this helps. Let us know if we can assist you further.
Kevin
Re: [kevbarker] Setting up a php testing server on Mac OSX
By Dave - September 30, 2008
I'll add in that another great tool is: MySQL Query Browser
http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/gui-tools/5.0.html
http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/gui-tools/5.0.html
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Re: [Dave] Setting up a php testing server on Mac OSX
By zaba - April 20, 2009
I use cocoa mysql its free and superb mysql mac os x client. But this has been discontinued and replaced with sequel pro (based on the cocoa code). I have not used this yet though.
http://code.google.com/p/sequel-pro/downloads/list
http://code.google.com/p/sequel-pro/downloads/list