Class environment teaching David Powers Training from the Source with PHP questions?

[Bo_b]

Community College classroom environment

Graphics Technology Degree (Creatives combating code)

Window 7 operating system

Second time working with the book within my class and having difficulties again. Not a problem with the book or tutorials, but the class setup. First semester working with the book XAMPP was the problem. Students working  between the classroom, computer lab and home had many difficulties with the Localhost between locations. Too many problems XAMPP problems (in too many folders) for me solve. This semester I tried a third party Host. This worked well through the restyling of wordpress but we hit the wall at mysqladmin and databases. Each student has a subdomain who's mysql database is not allowed to be accessed except from within the providers control panel. Access is denied from Dreamweaver.

Hope there is someone who has a suggestion.

Thanks

Bob Canger

Graphics Instructor.

[Rob Hecker2]

If you used a VPS with WHM (web host manager)/cPanel you could provide each student with FTP and cPanel account access, which would give them phpMyadmin access. This would also be more like the "real world" in that each student would have root access to their own account. They would not all be sharing an account. As administrator you would have access to all the accounts, but the students would not have access to each other's.

[Bo_b]

Thanks Rob

New at being the administrator. I think what you have suggested here is the way to go

Thanks again

Bob

[Rob Hecker2]

I have my VPS at ServInt. It's managed, so the environment is all set up when you start. Being familiar with your local webserver environment, you would find it not especially difficult to orient yourself. I have not used a VPS anywhere else, so I can't compare, but I love ServInt.