general development environment

[fayaz]

Hi

What do people use to develop web sites?

What is your general environment?

How do you test pages that have say forms that need to be submitted without having to upload your pages to a web host?

BTW I am running XP home.

Thanks

[Bahamut-Xero]

my test enviroment is:

apache1.3.3 with php4, mysql. because i use php in my pages, and those are the exact software/versions my hosting uses.
pspad (google it) for my html/php/css/htaccess documents. because it colors code nicely, and has good customisation.
photoshop 7 because i have a copy, and it does a good job. and i cant be bothered learning something new when this does the job nicely and properly.
filezilla server because im looking into using php scripts that may have to use FTP to transfer files. and for quick and easy access for my mates who cant be stuffed setting up a server.

i run all of these on windows xp home also :)

[kiwibrit]

I run Apache2, php4, mysql on my Windows Xp Home laptop.

[Ubik]

I use another directory on my web host to test mine.

I develop using HomeSite+ 5.5 mainly for the pretty colors, otherwise, just notepad or wordpad is fine. I have studio 8, but only use it to develop flash and for image editing. I am sure I am not using it as intended, but oh well.

All of the sites that I have developed freelance have only required some very basic asp coding, but I am eager to get into some php development - I miss it.

[NogDog]

Apache2, PHP4, and MySQL4 on my WinXP machine with FF and IE for testing, plus same on my Linux notebook with FF, Konqueror, and Opera for testing.

[Kravvitz]

My current text editor of choice is Syn Text Editor (http://syn.sourceforge.net/).

I use an old Pentium 1 that is running RedHat 8 with Apache 2, PHP4 and MySQL 3.23 for testing and development.

My primary browser is Firefox, though I test in many browsers which include the ones listed here (http://www.dynamicsitesolutions.com/services/).

[Sheldon]

I use;

BBEdit, on my MacOs X.4, Desktop and laptop.
HTML Kit on my Windows XPSP2 Box

Linux Debian Sarge 3.1 on my home server

All running:
Apache version 1.3.34
PHP version 4.4.1
MySQL version 4.0.25-standard-log

Browsers include;
Safari(mac only)
FireFox
IE

[EasyWeb]

we use an old pentium dual server (400MHz X 2) running multiple operating systems as our dev server that way we can test on different browser and operating systems we also test compatibility with different DB configurations ie: mysql, mssql etc we find this handy as it allows us to develop in different languages too

[juicemousezero]

I dual boot with XP pro and Mandrake Linux 10.1. On XP pro I have IIS, ASP.NET, SQL server 2000, and all that for the .NET stuff. On linux I have Apache version 1.3.34, PHP 4.4.1, MySQL 4. It's a nice balance.