Re: Building a test environment
Dreamweaver is nice... but not much help editing php.
I found NotePad++ to work best for editing. WinMerge for comparing files and such. Dreamweaver for doing tests with flash and javascripts.
I use Uniform Server as my testing server, I have XAMPP just haven't used it yet. You don't need to setup a linux server unless you have one running already. Both Uniform Server and XAMPP will act as Apache servers. Both are portable, I have Uniform Server installed on my portable drive so I can work on the run. Look to Portableapps.com for portable versions of all the apps I talk about, but dreamweaver.
If your using the eStart book, I think it will tell you how to setup XAMPP. I don't think their is one for Linux. Just install PHP, MySQL and run the Apache setup on your Linux box.
Dave
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