I used to use the buffered reader in September but I started to find when in my contests that the Scanner is better.

Since I can read individual elements at a time, I don't have to worry about...

XAMPP might even be decent for production, it seems secure. It has a ton of futures. I wonder if it's good enough to use in a production environment. :)

If you just installed the latest PHP, you'll have to have a web server such as apache installed.

Try xampp (http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp-windows.html) if you want a quick install of php....