Want to provide sites that work close along side you with a feed of your blog? In recent versions of PHP, you can include a remote file from their server in your page. Here's a little example that's on our site - we're pulling down a piece of PHP via a URL.
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Have you noticed how I usually post "The Horse's Mouth" in the morning, whereas the most natural time of day for a diary - surely is the evening, logging an event or events of the day?
I rise early and that gives me an excellent few hours of fresh, concentration time to go through a whole series of ....
Our Opentalk forum provides a great place where newcomers to Perl and PHP, Python and MySQL can ask questions that they can't find answer to in the books they have, or where they can discuss which of two ways of tacking a problem would be best. I encourage past course delegates to sign up (it's free ....
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That was a typical answer from John, who provided my "third level" technical support a few years back when I looked after the RasterFlex family of Graphic boards for Sun Workstations. The answer told me all I needed to know (but nothing else!) and would have left my European custo ....
We've had 45000 page requests in the last week from the University of Illinois - 17000 of which were within a period of a few hours yesterday. Not bad going? Had we been recommended to the whole University as a site worth seeing? Alas, no; all the requests were coming from a single host computer ....
Some of the telephone enquiries we get these days are more than interesting - Lisa took a call the other day looking for a Mr [name deleted] who's name appears within some test data on our web site; it appears that the gent who phoned was owed quite a bit of money by the person named in our data. A ....
It's worrying when a web site that's been rock solid starts giving intermittent problems - and even more worrying when those intermittent problems just fade away and you're left unsure as to what was the cause of them. I'm afraid I'm the sort who wonders if and when the issue will return.
And so i ....
An answer to an enquirer ... I'm posting a part of this here as it compares and contrasts some of the options available if you want to learn PHP.
"""There's a variety of PHP course available, as you say ... and not everyone needs a course; some people do very well self-taught or from books.
I did ....
I lost my "Camel Book". You would think that with over 600 books on the shelves, I wouldn't miss the odd one - but each book has its own particular features and certainly amongst my 23 hot favourites I'll spot any that are missing within a few days. What a mystery - had a delegate taken it accidenta ....
Both Perl and MySQL are major pieces of open source software with a multitude of facilities available - yet you can use them together with just a tiny piece of software "glue" - the DBI and DBD::MySQL module pair from the CPAN (comprehensive Perl archive network).
Once you've got Perl and MySQL ins ....