Re: New to PHP
| From: | Dan Baker | Date: | Thu, 19 Jan 2006 23:00:47 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: New to PHP | ||
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"Jedidiah" <jjsmith@yhti.net> wrote in message
news:1F.D5.03850.27C00D34@pb1.pair.com...
>I mentioned earlier that I recently switched my site over to PHP.
<snip>
> I can no longer preview
> my pages without uploading the files to the server. This can really
> become
> a problem when I am making slight formatting changes to my CSS file where
> I
> need to refresh the page every few seconds until I get the look just
> right.
>
> Is it really worth changing all the files to PHP files and using includes?
> Is there any way around this, or am I stuck uploading??
There are a couple things you can do:
(1) Create a local webserver/PHP environment, like others have suggested
(2) Made yourself a small test bed are on your external server, upload your
files, and try them out. If you have a fast internet connection, this
usually isn't too bad.
Dan