The first benefit of my new online course was to get to know software for programming. Previously I’ve been using Notepad++ for code editing and run PHP files on the hosting server. The issue here is the cumbersome process of copying the file to the server and then running web pages there because PHP is a server-side language that needs special software.
It turns out that is very easy to emulate PHP on your own computer. What you need to do is to install either MAMP or XAMPP programs. I’ve chosen second and very happy about it right now.
It also could set up a server for SQL database so you can run your entire project on PC.
But even better is that you can work with a local server in conjunction with code editor Brackets and get instant result in your browser without bothering about transferring files and then manually run it.
So far, I’m very excited about these tools.