PHP

Introduction

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PHP is most probably one of the favourite language for internet application development. It has the following characteristics:

• Free to use
• OpenSource - code is improving everyday
• Syntax is the mixing up of Perl and C
• Really impressive performance to run on Apache, on a Linux OS
• Soon be owned by Sun

Tutorial

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• PHP with MySQL
• Setting up a PHP 5 with Apache 2 and MySQL 4.1.3

Speeding up PHP

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• Turck MMCache

Links

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• PHP lib
• http://www.php.net
• http://www.phpfaq.info
• PHP User Auth
• PHP installation
• 7 Reasons why PHP is better than ASP

Compile String

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Kwan

./configure --with-mysql --with-apxs=/www/bin/apxs --with-xmlrpc --with-dom --with-dom-xslt  --with-zlib-dir

Alternative Uses of PHP

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• PHP-GTK - Build cross-platform windowed app with PHP
• MozPHP - Run PHP with Mozilla