Visual Studio Magazine

Access MySQL Database With PHP

To install the MySQL database, you must first download the community edition of MySQL 5.0 database for Windows. There are three versions: Windows Essentials (x86), Windows (x86) ZIP/Setup.EXE and ...
Computerworld

Accessing Your MySQL Database from the Web with PHP

Learn how to access a MySQL database from the Web using PHP, including how to read from and write to the database and how to filter potentially troublesome input data. Previously, in our work with PHP ...
Visual Studio Magazine

PHP Meets SQL Server -- Converting MySQL Queries

As an addendum to last week's post about a recent SQL Server camp held for PHP developers, Microsoft's Brian Swan has published some new nuts-and-bolts details for converting MySQL queries. Swan, who ...
Houston Chronicle

Fastest Way to Check if MYSQL Table Exists in PHP

Dynamic PHP pages give you the option to choose a MySQL table dynamically from which to query. You must ensure that the table exists before running a query on the table. PHP has a quick function that ...
Network World

WampServer delivers a smart, Windows-friendly platform for Apache, MySQL and PHP-based apps

While many popular website applications (WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, etc.) are open source and therefore freely available, running these PHP-based apps on a Windows IIS web server requires a bit of ...