Ever wonder how to set up a Cron Job without a fancy GUI Cron Manager? It’s fairly simple, even if you’re afraid to touch the command line. Open up your server’s command line, and type This will list any cron jobs that currently exist. If you never made a cron job, don’t expect to see [...]
Yesterday, we started to look at PHP. We’ve installed our servers, and ran our first PHP page. Though it was a mere “Hello World” example, it’s the basis of printing information on the screen. Today, I want to look over variables. Remember High School Algebra – a constant, usually represented by x,y,z or another letter, [...]
PHP has become a very large community supported language. It houses many large websites, Facebook for example, and is the basis of many new developers. I am going to go through and teach you how to start programming in PHP. I’ll assume you have an understanding of HTML. You don’t need to know HTML to [...]
Introduction At the beginning of these tutorials, I will provide the basic syntax needed to do what our objective is. It will be generic, but it will be a nice overview into what you need to follow when writing your own SQL. Data that you will need to alter or insert will be surrounded in [...]
Get your credentials Setting up your database can be an easy task, or a hard one. This process will vary from host to host. If you want to install it yourself on your computer, please refer to installation manuals provided. If you are using a WAMP, LAMP, or MAMP stack, then with that installation, MySQL [...]
What is MySQL? MySQL is “The world’s most popular open source database.” MySQL is popular among the PHP community as it provides high performance, reliablity, and is very easy to use. Sites like Facebook and Google utilize the capabilities of MySQL. MySQL is not the only type of database that PHP works with. PHP [...]
