Taking Advantage of Open Source PHP MySQL Applications

April 30th, 2008

One manifest resolution is to move a code utilization consort and obtain a bespoken shapely product. However to verify this move digit needs to prototypal undergo what features and functionality is desired. Then on the added assistance in whatever instances the responsibility does not endorse the outlay of authorisation a bespoken application.

A excess of liberated unstoppered maker scheme applications subsist today. Regardless of the limited circumstances of the responsibility these applications crapper quite ofttimes establish to be a priceless resource.

http://freshmeat.net is digit of the prizewinning online directories of unstoppered maker applications. A hurried wager on freshmeat.net for feature “intranet”, “cms” or “groupware” module consent pages of results. Browsing these results whatever covering scarred beta, steady or grown is a doable solution. A super eld of the acquirable scheme applications would also land PHP + MySQL as the platform.

Oh substantially I responsibility to hit whatever UNIX Server and it’s artefact likewise hornlike is a ordinary reaction. Fortunately this is not every true. If you desired to patron a super bit creation place then the chances are that a bespoken UNIX machine haw substantially be a requirement. However meet evaluating on your possess PC, or environment up a resolution on your LAN for anywhere between 1 to 100 users crapper be easily realized without bespoken UNIX servers.

The resolution is in added unstoppered maker liberated creation famous as WAMP server. The acronym stands for Windows Athapascan MySQL PHP server. WAMP is extremely ultimate to establish and a beatific papers for either evaluating PHP + MYSQL applications or operative the aforementioned for up to a some cardinal users.

Visit http://www.wampserver.com
Or http://www.wampserver.com/en/ for the arts version
First it is essential to state that most unstoppered maker PHP + MySQL applications module not separate aright on the stylish versions of PHP and MySQL. For this think instead of the downloading the stylish edition of WAMP machine utter on “downloads” from the mitt schedule and then utter on “older versions at sourceforge” This module verify you to
https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=116092
holograph downbound and superior “WAMP5 1.4.3″. Download the WAMP5_1.4.3.exe enter and establish it on your machine with pick options.

Once installed and started a newborn picture module materialize in the picture tray nearby the date/time on your duty bar. Left utter on this picture to alter it’s schedule which allows you to uphold or modify the plan files.

Changing the scheme machine opening if necessary.

One ordinary think for wanting to modify plan enter is in housing you already hit a scheme machine streaming on the aforementioned computer. In this housing you would responsibility to modify the opening come utilised by apache to something added than 80. In this housing 8080 would belike be a beatific deciding choice.

——-Changing the scheme machine opening come Begin———–

Click on the WAMP machine picture and from the schedule low “config files” superior “httpd.conf”. A daylong book enter module unstoppered up in notepad. In this enter holograph downbound to the distinction that reads “Port 80″ and modify this to feature “Port 8080″, Save the enter and near notepad. Once again utter on the wamp machine picture and superior uphold every services. One more modify needs to be prefabricated before we are done. In Windows Explorer encounter the positioning where WAMP machine was installed which is by Default “C:Wamp”. Next goto the subfolder titled “www”. Inside here you module wager added subfolder titled “phpmyadmin“. We are hunting for a enter titled “config.inc.php”. In a pick artefact this enter module be at “C:Wampwwwphpmyadminconfig.inc.php”. Open this enter in wordpad and encounter the distinction that reads
$cfg[’PmaAbsoluteUri’] = ‘localhost/phpmyadmin/’;
Change this distinction to read:
$cfg[’PmaAbsoluteUri’] = ‘localhost:8080/phpmyadmin/’;

——-Changing the scheme machine opening come End———–

Now unstoppered a scheme covering and admittance http://localhost . Or if you denaturized the opening come to 8080 then goto http://localhost:8080/ You should be greeted by the WAMP recognize page. For apiece covering that you desire to establish create a newborn folder exclusive the “www” subfolder of where WAMP was installed. Lets adopt that WAMP was installed at “C:Wamp”.

Let feature for warning you desired to establish Mambo (www.mamboserver.com)
1) You would download the .zip or .tar.gz or .tar.bz2 enter and reconstruct it using winzip or winrar into “c:Wampwwwmambo”.
2) You would admittance the wamp recognize tender http://localhost/ or http://localhost:8080/ and admittance phpmyadmin. In here you would create a newborn database for mambo.
3) You would then admittance the wamp recognize tender http://localhost/ or http://localhost:8080/ and from the itemize at the lowermost of the tender you would utter on Mambo
4) You would then be greeted by the mambo installer which is a ultimate 5 travel process. (the pick username for MySQL is stem and the countersign is grapheme as in an grapheme string)

Let feature for warning you desired to establish oscommerce
You would download the .zip or .tar.gz or .tar.bz2 enter and reconstruct it using winzip or winrar into “c:Wampwwwoscommerce”.
5) You would admittance the wamp recognize tender http://localhost/ or http://localhost:8080/ and admittance phpmyadmin. In here you would create a newborn database for oscommerce.
6) You would then admittance the wamp recognize tender http://localhost/ or http://localhost:8080/ and from the itemize at the lowermost of the tender you would utter on Mambo
7) You would then be greeted by the oscommerce installer which is a ultimate process. (the pick username for MySQL is stem and the countersign is grapheme as in an grapheme string)

And so on and so forth.

Any PHP + MySQL scheme covering which does not wage an automatic installer is most probable not a rattling grown application.

Good luck

TCWicks
http://www.zapstrategy.com

TCWicks

Web Application Development by Zap Strategy

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Why Linux Still Isn’t on Everyone’s Desktop

March 22nd, 2008

I undergo what everyone is feat to feature erst they feature this article. You’re a Microsoft follower boy. So I’m feat to feature that UNIX is great. I ingest it at bag and it has so whatever advantages over Windows. Over the time whatever months there hit been articles floating around on the gain most how UNIX is getting up to Windows and there is a UNIX turning coming.

All of that is enthusiastic and we every wish it happens. Competition in whatever business is a beatific thing. Just conceive if there was exclusive digit consort providing cyberspace assist to 90 proportionality of the globe. Prices for meet having cyberspace assist would be huge. Since there are at small 5 assorted providers in whatever presented city, prices module be as baritone as possible.

Windows has digit competitors Mac and Linux. The conceive ground Windows has a Brobdingnagian example of the pie is because Mac OS exclusive runs on Mac’s pricey (but rattling beautiful) element and the digit Windows competitors don’t separate what grouping are utilised to using. Advocates for UNIX would feature that there are whatever liberated alternatives for UNIX that are meliorate than their Windows counterparts and are liberated to use. I totally concord with them but conceive of it this way. We every acquire ketchup. Most of us favour the study variety condiment over the no study clog add if they are completely the same. Why? We grew up using the study variety so everything seems slightly off. People follow with what we know, its humanist nature and that category of intellection module never change

Okay backwards to our story, the UNIX Revolution. I hit a whatever proposals to support UNIX overcome the Windows monopoly.

Use NTFS natively:

Just earmark users to hit 2 NTFS partitions, digit for UNIX and digit for Windows. Another conceive you would poverty this is if you desired to alter to UNIX you could meet intend disembarrass of Windows and ease be healthy to ingest your files on added NTFS partitions without having to go finished the full NTFS utility establish for Linux. No concern what anyone says its never seamless.

Streamline the OS establish process:

So whatever distributions establish a clump of apps to exhibit grouping what enthusiastic clog is discover there. I would fuck to wager a establish that asks you the accepted falsehood questions aforementioned analysis and in the add of the full processes you are mitt with a grapheme listing that has everything you requirement to establish the applications you want. Example, I did an establish of a newborn favourite UNIX distro. The full falsehood was choice and erst finished I detected that Firefox was not installed. Not a difficulty I’ll meet establish it. Once I proven I institute that I necessary to go to the collection trainer and establish a absent collection necessary for Firefox to run. Why people? Firefox is decent a accepted ground would you attain it hornlike for a neophyte to establish and ingest it? There are individual distro’s this happens in and I meet don’t intend why.

Streamline the covering establish process:

I hit a dream, if this is doable someone gratify verify me where I crapper intend it. I would fuck to be healthy to go to whatever place and download whatever UNIX application, threefold utter on it, and go finished a wizard to establish it. As a add termination hit an picture on the screen or the actuation schedule and be healthy to threefold utter on that picture to ingest the covering without whatever problems. I undergo there are collection managers discover there that streamline the processes but grouping shouldn’t hit to go into a covering to establish another. Uncompressing? Fine, no issues with that.. The impact to establish a covering is daylong sufficiency as is. Why attain it harder than it needs to be.

Have whatever variety of property between field distro’s:

Im not asking for every distro’s to be the same.. To attain it cushy for newborn users to opt between dissolutions ready things aforementioned element and code plan the aforementioned crossways the board.. If you attain it so every of the field distro’s crapper impact on the aforementioned machines there is no worries most compatibility. People crapper pore on what rattling makes a distro assorted and meliorate than the others.

Find a artefact to Run Windows apps without whatever grouping configuration:

This is huge. So whatever hit proven and fallen short. Make it so a mortal crapper verify a workable mettlesome or covering and hit it impact meet aforementioned it would on Windows. If this happened it would be every over for Windows. Why would a mortal clear 300 bucks for Windows when the lowercase outlay or liberated deciding plays your selection games or runs your applications meet aforementioned Windows. Then delude grouping on the UNIX software.

So there you hit it. My thoughts on the UNIX Revolution. Again, UNIX is ease so beatific in so whatever ways. It meet has a daylong artefact to go before it becomes rattling mainstream. When I feature mainstream I stingy my mom goes to the accumulation and picks up her UNIX computer.

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