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Zend Server CE is the best in my opinion

http://www.zend.com/...ucts/server-ce/

Is the timezone table properly populated?

SELECT COUNT(*) FROM mysql.time_zone;

A 'variable' inside a class (called a class member variable) should have $'s otherwise PHP will probably assume they're constants. Next, the 'var' keyword is from PHP4 - get rid of it and start using public, private or protected to define the variable scope. Public can be accessed from anywhere, protected can only be accessed by a child or parent class, private can only be accessed from the class itself..

class FacebookProfile
{
    private $password = '$3cr3tPassw0rD';

    protected $birthday = '31/01/1990';

    public $name = 'Jock';

}

The PHP docs on class member visibility explain this pretty well - http://www.php.net/m....visibility.php

Anyway onto your question: There is no standard way of defining variable values. Personally if I have default values, I will hard code them into the variable definition at the top of the class, rather than setting them within the constructor. When you need to access or edit a member variable, it's much better practice to use an Accessor/Mutator method, read more on this on wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia..../Mutator_method

It might look like hard work but an IDE like netbeans will automatically write getters/setters for you automatically.

Contractor here.


Ignore IR35, as jack said above you only need to worry about it if you set up as a LTD company and only have 1 main stream of income.

It wont effect you if you set up as a sole trader (you can be a Sole Trader and Full Time PAYE employee). You just need to declare your earnings via self assessment, and they will calculate your deductions at your tax bracket 20/40/50% e.g if you're in 20% bracket...

PAYE Pay 		£20,000.00
+ Sole Trader earnings	£5,000.00

- Tax 		£3,505.00
- NI 		£2,132.64

= £19362.36

Not bad vs the £15962.36 you would earn without the extra 5K freelance income. Your sole trader income is entitled to tax deductible expenses/loss too.

I always thought the syntax was

"SHOW TABLES FROM `database_name`;"

Anyway, you just keep echoing the resource, you need to do something like...

$result = mysql_query($sql);
while($table =  mysql_fetch_row($result)) {
    echo $table[0];
}