[Year 12 Its] PHP/MySQL learning environment

[Con Zymaris]

On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 03:11:23PM +1030, Peter Ruwoldt (wrk) wrote:
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> 
> * Students should not store there work on a PC. PC’s can be
> re-imaged without notice. We can not assume that students will
> work on the same PC each time either. They will need to be able to
> continue with their work at other locations in the school and
> hopefully at home.
> * I would be happy with students doing their development on an
> external server so that it can be accessed from school and home.
> However, working on a server adds complexity as code has to be
> written, uploaded to the server and then executed by checking with
> a browser. They do not get the benefit of using tools like PHP
> Designer 2005.
> * How do you easily have a server set up so that 20 students can
> each have their space for testing?
> * It is easy to backup a database, destroy it and then restore it
> using PHPmyadmin. PHP files can be copied to another location for
> safe keeping.

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