PHP : Magazine Articles

Any Access table can be converted to MySQL by using MyODBC. All the steps, with screen shots, are explained in this article.

A complete overview of using PHPMyAdmin to learn SQL. The tutorial will take you from the start to end by using easy to understand language and pictures. The article was writen by Marc Delisle and is featured exclusively on PHP-Editors.com.

Unapologetically, my objective in this article is to show that PHP and MySQL are both mature and widespread technologies that can be considered a primary web-application platform, not just an alternative to ASP, JSP, Cold Fusion and a host of other web-app scripting solutions out there. I'm developing this article in an evolutionary way and will add as I see trends, get new data, have new ideas for how to discover the case for PHP.

I have always been surprised from what PHP can do.Using COM objects shows new and best ways for PHP development. The folowing code, which is designed like Step by Step wizard, shows the access to Inbox and Outbox folders in your MS Outlook application.

At some point in your career you might get a task go build a search engine that runs on PHP. By a search engine in this article we will mean the internal site search engine, not a Google competitor, since that would have to be a heck of a project probably not possible to build in 30 minutes.

This site has a collection of Web development/design articles on PHP, MySQL, CSS, open-source software and other topics. New content is regularly added.

Give code and examples on the basics of plotting geo-coordinates on a raster map of the world using PHP and GD.

A comparison of PHP of Cold Fusion by Mike Sheldon. It's interesting to note that Allaire is moving strongly toward the Java platform, and reports are that CF 5.0 will be an abstraction layer on a Java Servlet engine. Allaire is also very definitely focusing on the Enterprise market, and IMHO is not paying much attention to the "Pro" market anymore. While the profit margins are definitely better in the Enterprise market, there's a whole ton more volume in the rest of the market, which is ripe for PHP to dominate.

PHP is now the most popular module for the Apache server, currently running on about two million Web sites. This article discusses a short history, what to look for in a scripting engine, advantages and disadvantages of PHP, and more.

According to Symantec AntiVirus Research Center, "PHP.Pirus is the first virus written in PHP, a server-side scripting language used for dynamic Web page generation. The virus searches for .php and .htm files and inserts code to call itself. The virus executes only on servers with PHP interpreters. This virus cannot be contracted by simply visiting an infected Web page." The Web page offers technical description and how to remove the virus.