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Thank you for your input. If the application was urgent, I'd definitely contract someone to do it. But seeing as I'm now retired, and I love programming, I'll give it a try. Also, it's a re-write of an Access database that I wrote 15 years ago.<br />
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Is MAMP as good an environment to install as anything else, or is there another one to consider?
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Thank you for your input. If the application was urgent, I'd definitely contract someone to do it. But seeing as I'm now retired, and I love programming, I'll give it a try. Also, it's a re-write of an Access database that I wrote 15 years ago.

Is MAMP as good an environment to install as anything else, or is there another one to consider?

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MAMP is a great place to start. &nbsp;It's a platform for running Apache, MySQL and PHP.
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MAMP is a great place to start.  It's a platform for running Apache, MySQL and PHP.

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I'd like to get advice about what development environment to use to develop a web data entry application. I have over 40 years of programming experience, but have never developed for the web. This is likely the only application that I'm going to develop. I had one suggestion to use Apache/PHP/MySQL, which seems reasonable. But recently read about other solutions than MAMP (I use a Mac). Is it useful to also use something like Wordpress?<br />
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Thank you
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I'd like to get advice about what development environment to use to develop a web data entry application. I have over 40 years of programming experience, but have never developed for the web. This is likely the only application that I'm going to develop. I had one suggestion to use Apache/PHP/MySQL, which seems reasonable. But recently read about other solutions than MAMP (I use a Mac). Is it useful to also use something like Wordpress?

Thank you

Web Data Entry Application

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