Suggestion to recommend XAMPP

Let us know what you would like to see in the next version of this software

Moderator: kfury77

Forum rules
Please follow these guidelines when posting feature requests. This will help to increase the value of your contribution.

  • Do not create new topics for already requested features. Add your comments to the existing feature request topics instead;
  • Create separate topic for each feature suggestion. Do NOT post a number of non-related feature suggestions in a single topic;
  • Give your topic a meaningful title. Do NOT create topics with meaningless titles, such as "My Suggestion" or "My Problem".

Please note that we DO READ all suggestions, even if a reply is not posted. Thanks!

Suggestion to recommend XAMPP

Postby FrankC » Fri Jun 12, 2015 7:15 am

During the installation of WB on a new machine, I noticed that for the php.exe one is referred to the php.net site. However, using XAMPP is *much, much* easier, in terms of installation and support. Why doesn't WB recommend that?

An even easier option was included in the 2011 version of WB, namely a php.exe that came with WB, if I remember correctly. Although that probably did not offer sub options such as using .htacces files, beginners probably won't use that anyway. Why doesn't WB come with that anymore?

I'd think that it would be best of WB would still come with its own php.exe, and that users are referred to XAMPP if they want more sub options.
FrankC
 
Posts: 126
Joined: Thu Aug 18, 2011 3:28 pm

Re: Suggestion to recommend XAMPP

Postby Aivars » Fri Jun 12, 2015 4:01 pm

When you preview PHP file on freshly installed WeBuilder, it offers to download PHP package from here: http://www.blumentals.net/lv/download-php.php. You probably used that one in 2011. It's also described in our help: http://help.blumentals.net/webuilder/php/dbgconfig.htm

Regarding XAMPP, there are many more similar ones (e.g. WAMP, Appserv). But those are all 3rd party and whether we like it or not, the official one still comes from php.net.
Blumentals Software Programmer
User avatar
Aivars
Blumentals Software Developer
 
Posts: 2453
Joined: Thu Aug 22, 2002 1:40 pm
Location: Latvia

Re: Suggestion to recommend XAMPP

Postby FrankC » Fri Jun 19, 2015 6:49 pm

Aivars wrote:When you preview PHP file on freshly installed WeBuilder, it offers to download PHP package from here: http://www.blumentals.net/lv/download-php.php. You probably used that one in 2011. It's also described in our help: http://help.blumentals.net/webuilder/php/dbgconfig.htm

True in itself, but during the installation one is referred to the php.net site. That's what counts more, I'd think.

Aivars wrote:Regarding XAMPP, there are many more similar ones (e.g. WAMP, Appserv). But those are all 3rd party and whether we like it or not, the official one still comes from php.net.

True in itself as well, but have you ever looked at how difficult it is to install the PHP module from php.net? I bet you three quarters of your clients, if not more, find that too difficult. Also, XAMPP comes with an SQL module, and has great support through their forum. WAMP and Appserv may offer the same thing, I don't know that, but I would certainly not recommend the standard PHP module from php.net. At least one should be referred to all those sites during the installation, I'd think.

It's your bizz, but if it were mine, I'd do it that way.
FrankC
 
Posts: 126
Joined: Thu Aug 18, 2011 3:28 pm

Re: Suggestion to recommend XAMPP

Postby IceTater » Sat Sep 19, 2015 12:48 am

I found AMPPS http://www.ampps.com/ to work very well, and it runs on Windows, MacOS and Linux.
IceTater
 
Posts: 10
Joined: Sat Nov 29, 2014 1:00 am


Return to HTMLPad / Rapid CSS / Rapid PHP / WeBuilder Feature Requests

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 7 guests

cron