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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 - PHPs popularity is the central reason why you should consider learning it above all others.PHP is the basis of Content Management Systems such as Drupal, Joomla and WordPress so gaining a knowledge of PHP would help you in using these scripts.Presumably your are already proficient with CSS and HTML and want to take your web creativity to ...

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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 back to the database. As always, the fastest way to master the process is to jump right in with the code, look it over and use it. We’ll make a MySQL database to store the page names and the number of page views, and use PHP to increment and display the count on a web page. First ...

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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 to create images optimized for the Web is to crop them contextually.Contextually CroppingWhat is cropping contextually? Many times digital images shot for Web use have a border of useless space around the object(s) of interest. Rather than crop to just the film or chip's border, crop contextually down to the minimum dimensions that still convey the meaning ...

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'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 "killer applications" on the Macintosh'This was the first tutorial I ever did!I created it originally for another site, so sorry for any irregular references.Hey guys, this is a tutorial for pen tooling, present on my current signature. I hope you enjoy this and would love to see some results :) Pen tooling is a great tool in ...

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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 into digital visual arts. It is therefore not surprising why there are tons of photo shop tutorials out there. People really want to learn how to use the program. But among tutorials, the best type for learning is probably the photo shop video tutorial.In all fairness to other types of photo shop tutorials, normal photo shop instructional ...

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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 PRIMARY KEY definition as part of the CREATE TABLE statement. A primary key is an attribute—or set of attributes—that uniquely identifies a row in a table. Storing two rows with the same primary key isn't permitted and, indeed, an attempt to INSERT duplicate primary keys produces an error.In MySQL, the attribute values of the primary key are ...

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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 on the Internet will reveal some of the most interesting web scripts you have ever seen. Whether you are searching for a PHP script, ASP script or Perl script, you will surely find what you were looking for. At the same time, you have the opportunity to find out that programming languages (web scripts) are generally used ...

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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 Perl and CGI.I am an entrepreneur. I don’t care much for technology for technologies sake. I care about technology for what it can do for us as humans. Business is where we can bring about products and services that we can all gain value from and improve our lives.Windows servers allowed me to focus less on the ...

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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 Ajax that stands for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML. It is the use of the nonstandard XMLHttpRequest object to communicate with server-side scripts. It can send as well as receive information in a variety of formats, including XML, HTML, and even text files. The tutorial provides with Ajax’s most appealing characteristic, of having an “asynchronous” nature, which means ...

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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 company's budget, technical skills, and your overall corporate needs.PHP seems to be the most popular and cheaper open source programming language used to create CMS websites which rely on user generated content. PHP is free and so are virtually all of its supporting tools. Since it's open-source, it has good web support, code snippets and plenty of ...

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