PHP is the world’s most popular web development language. Started by Danish-Greenlandic programmer Rasmus Lerdorf in 1995 it is now installed on more than 20 million websites and 1 million web servers and counting.It is estimated that for every 100 PHP developers, there are 42 Perl developers, 12 Python developers and 4 Ruby developers – [...]
Self-Taught PHP/MYSQL: a simple Page CounterThis article is a short introduction to PHP and MySQL using the example of a simple page counter. I will illustrate creating the database in MySQL, connecting to the database from the PHP script, querying the database for information, displaying the information in a web page, and writing the information [...]
Crop Images ContextuallyCrop images contextually for faster downloads and higher impact. By cropping maximally and resizing you can convey meaning without slowing down your web pages.However, we’ve seen many sites that either use HTML’s width and height attributes to resize larger images, or minimally crop and resize images to lose vital information. A better way [...]
‘Adobe Photoshop, or simply Photoshop, is a graphics editing program developed and published by Adobe Systems. It is the current and primary market leader for commercial bitmap and image manipulation, and is the flagship product of Adobe Systems. It has been described as “an industry standard for graphics professionals”[1] and was one of the early [...]
In today’s world of computers, it would seem so impossible if you have not even heard of Adobe Photo Shop. It hails among the most important programs of today, being the leading photo-processing and graphics software in the market. Learning how to use this program is already a prerequisite for anyone who wants to venture [...]
PHP – In this section we discuss miscellaneous tools and techniques for using SQL and MySQL. We introduce:Choosing keys and indexes for fast searchingElementary database-tuning techniquesAdding and deleting users of a DBMS, and changing user permissionsLimitations of MySQL3.10.1 Keys, Primary Keys, and IndexesAs discussed earlier in our introduction to SQL, each table should have a [...]
Scripting languages have definitely become increasingly popular and every day, more and more people show an interest in what they can do. Some of these are more advanced than others, such as Perl or Ajax.What is the best place to find some free scripts if not the Internet? It is guaranteed that a simple search [...]
Back in 1997 when the majority of web sites were being served from UNIX servers I chose to use Windows servers. I chose Windows servers because they gave the fastest server side development environment with ASP and Access databases. I could cut my teeth on server side programming without killing my brain trying to learn [...]
It’s often a difficult scenario on the part of an I.T aspirant to get into a thorough analysis of the particular subject matter but since the advent of internet as a valuable source of information, there have been the emergence of tutorials that are available online related to Ajax. The first and foremost tutorial defines [...]
One of the most vital choices that Web administrators have to make is what side to take when they decide on what framework to create their content management system website on – a .NET CMS or a PHP content management system. Each has it’s merits and limitations. Choosing a CMS is completely dependant on the [...]