PHP-Nuke Management and Programming
There has always been the necessity to have a definitive guide on PHP-Nuke. This tutorial describes the installation and structure of PHP-Nuke and the details of customizing the front end to suit the users’ needs. The architecture of PHP-Nuke, with its modules, blocks, topics and themes is presented in detail, as well as the interplay of PHP and MySQL for the creation of a mighty content management system (CMS).It also delves into more advanced issues, like the programming of PHP-Nuke blocks and modules.
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Installing and Configuring PHP and MySQL Tutorial
The Windows PHP installer is available from the downloads page at www.php.net/download.php This installs the CGI version of PHP and for IIS, PWS, and Xitami, it configures the web server as well. The installer does not include any extra external PHP extensions (php_*.dll) as you’ll only find those in the Windows Zip Package and PECL downloads.
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How To Install PHP On Linux
This tutorial explains the installation of PHP 5, bundled with Apache and MySQL server on a Linux machine. The tutorial was written primarily for SuSE 9.2, 9.3, 10.0 & 10.1, but most of the steps ought to be valid for all Linux-like operating systems. We will set up PHP as a shared module, being loaded into Apache2 dynamically during the server startup. These instructions are known to work for PHP versions: 5.0.4 through 5.2.1.
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PHP Sessions - Why Use Them
As a website becomes more sophisticated, so must the code that backs it. When you get to a stage where your website need to pass along user data from one page to another, it might be time to start thinking about using PHP sessions.
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Databases on the Web with PHP
Interfacing a Database to the Web
Classical “client/server” architecture:
- server program waits for requests
- clients request connections
- once the connection is established, the client can send queries/transactions to the server
- server processes queries and transactions and returns results to respective clients
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