Entries Related to ‘PHP’

MySQL isn’t the only mature and feature-rich open source database; rival PostgreSQL can be an equally good choice. And if you know how to manage MySQL, you can learn how to handle PostgreSQL fairly quickly.

Because today’s Internet is rife with hackers, PHP web developers must code defensively and guard against potentially destructive errors.

MediaWiki is the software that powers Wikipedia and countless other wiki-based websites. This guide walks you through installing MediaWiki and offers some tips and tricks for configuring it to make it more useful.

While the popular Nagios application is a good real-time monitoring program, you can better track both uptime and performance by employing Cacti to monitor and collect device information.

Want to build graphical applications that run on multiple platforms? Try wxWidgets, an open source library designed to make it easy to create cross-platform GUI apps.

Drush, a Drupal command-line shell, makes a Drupal administrator’s job easy. It lets you perform internal cleanup, do a fresh Drupal install, install and enable modules, or create users, without the aid of a GUI.

Control groups in Linux let you aggregate tasks to allow for hierarchical resource management and allocation. Here’s how you can take advantage of control groups to improve your systems’ efficiency.

With the statistical survey application LimeSurvey, you can create surveys in a matter of minutes. LimeSurvey supports multiple choice, lists, and text questions, and integrates with a database of your choice to record responses and let you analyze the results.

The flexible Drupal content management system lets you build all kinds of websites, from simple blogs to complex giant multimedia extravaganzas. With this howto, you just might literally create a new Drupal site in 30 minutes or less.

The command-line tool cURL, designed to handle URL manipulations and data transfer, lets you fetch the HTML code for a web page without resorting to a browser, and integrates smoothly into PHP and Perl scripts for advanced work.