Newbie is lost . . .needs direction

[Lynn]

I have a php5 app that I had written for me and now I need to do some debugging.  I'm a programmer and a web designer (html mostly) but this is my first experience with php.  I've never done any local debugging so I think I am missing a critical step in the installation.

I have have Firefox with Firebug and Firephp installed.  I have downloaded the Firephpcore and copied it to a local folder where I'm playing with an index.php to see how it works.

But I have no idea how to run this index.php from firefox locally.  Do I need to install something that will turn my computer into a web server before I can do this?

Thanks for any direction you can give!!!!!

[Christoph Dorn]

Lynn wrote:

Do I need to install something that will turn my computer into a web server before I can do this?

Yes. You have several options:

- Zend Server: http://www.zend.com/community/zend-server-ce
- Easy PHP: http://www.easyphp.org/
- XAMPP: http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html

Christoph

[Lynn]

Thanks!  I'll start with installing one of those web servers.