Beginner’s Corner Part 3 – Installing Scripts – WordPress, Drupal, etc.

In this third installment of the Beginner’s Corner series of screencasts, we’re going to put together what we’ve learned so far and start installing scripts on our local development environment.  We will learn the general steps that are involved in getting the scripts to run successfully on our local server.

In case you missed them, here are the links to the previous parts of the series:

Beginner’s Corner Part 1 – Setting Up a Local Development Environment
Beginner’s Corner Part 2 – Creating Projects, Databases, and Users

Useful Links:
WampServer
XAMPP
MAMP
On Database Collation – http://oregonstate.edu/cws/docs/collation
How to Set Up Virtual Hosts on your Local Host

Beginner’s Corner Part 2 – Creating Projects, Databases, and Users

This is the second part of the Beginner’s Corner series of screencasts where we’re going back to basics and learning how to set up a local development environment.  In this installment, we look at how to create projects, where to put our project files and how to access them.  We also look at how to create databases and users in phpmyadmin and how to assign users to databases.

In case you missed it, here’s the link to part 1 of the series:
Beginner’s Corner Part 1 – Setting Up a Local Development Environment

Useful Links:
WampServer
XAMPP
MAMP
On Database Collation – http://oregonstate.edu/cws/docs/collation

Beginner’s Corner Part 1 – Setting Up a Local Development Environment

In today’s screencast, the first of a series, I am going to go all the way back to basics and walk you through setting up a local development environment (the easy way) on your computer that will allow you to code in PHP, develop applications, and test scripts such as WordPress, Drupal, MODx, etc.  This series of screencasts may be rudimentary for some of you, but I think that for the very rank beginners these may help lower the barrier to entering the world of web development.

Useful Links:
WampServer
XAMPP
MAMP

How to Set Up Virtual Hosts on your Local Host

In this screencast I walk you through how to set up virtual hosts on your local development server, specifically Wampserver on Windows.

As promised in the screencast I am appending a written version of the process on this post for your reference.

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Quick Update and a Question

Just a quick post to say hello, I’m still here, still alive.  Been very busy with school and work but it’s all good.  I’m sorry it’s been so long since the last post, but I haven’t really had the time or energy to put up a substantial tutorial or screencast.  I have been monitoring the comments though and replying as frequently as I can. I have also replied to all emails so far.

I have some ideas and plans on tutorials and screencasts for when I have some time to spare.  One thing that I’m debating about is doing a written tutorial on how to update a website from MODx 0.9.6.3 to MODx 1.0.  Some people have written and said they’ve not been able to view the screencast due to bandwidth issues so I’m wondering if it’s worth it writing a tutorial to accompany the screencast.  Ofcourse I would be updating a totally different site, maybe the Learn MODx site we’ve been building? Any thoughts, ideas, suggestions?

I also have a few more tutorials to write to complete both the Drupal and MODx beginner sets.

I’ve been playing around with a few PHP frameworks, trying to extend my boundaries and move out of my comfort zone, so you may see some tutorials coming out in that area depending on what frameworks I end up deciding to work with. For the longest time I was going with the Zend framework but at the moment it seems like overkill to me for my needs, but who knows, I haven’t made my mind up yet 🙂

That’s it for now!! If you enjoy these tutorials, please consider making a donation (button at top right), or just saying a quick thank you, it helps keep me going 🙂