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PHP

Posted by Henry Morrow
Henry Morrow
19,425 Points

Any guides on treehouse for installing PHP and working with php files in a text editor?

Is there any videos on how to install PHP on treehouse? I have followed multiple installation guides attempting to make it so I can develop and preview websites with PHP, but I haven't been able to get anything working. I set things up with apache on Mac OS X and I have gotten the apache server to work but I could use a more comprehensive walkthrough on how to access the apache root folder and use a text editor to preview php files. I am currently using Coda 2 so if anyone knows a good way to get going that would be great.

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Andrew McCormick
Andrew McCormick
17,730 Points
Andrew McCormick
Andrew McCormick
17,730 Points

Henry, Did you go through this or one of the videos like this? https://teamtreehouse.com/library/setup-your-local-development-environment-2

To access the php folders, you just open the file from your web root which you set in the settings of MAMP or that particular project if you choose for your files to be somewhere other than your default root.