PHP - Web server configuration

Exercises, examples and other material relating to training module H305. This topic is presented on public course PHP Techniques

Articles and tips on this subject		updated
3143	On time Do we need to be on time? Well ... if I go to the station at 07:20 - that's a minute late for the 07:19 - there's a good chance that I'll have missed the train and have to make alternative arrangements to get where I need to be. Even a few seconds and "sorry, mate - I've already closed the doors; you'll ...	2011-01-25
2981	How to set up short and meaningfull alternative URLs Wouldn't it be nice is URLs were shorter? Well - there are ways of making them shorter these days and you'll find them on networking sites like Twitter ... http://bit.ly/d7t8ID or http://bbc.in/XTQ8V . But where such URLs gain in brevity, they loose in comprehensibility. But it's very easy to provide ...	2010-10-02
2774	PHP - Object Oriented Design in use A web server access log file contains a whole series of hit records ... each of which is logically turned into an object as different fields have different characteristics. These hit objects can then be logically arranged into visit objects. Today, I gave a Object Oriented Programming in PHP training ...	2010-05-21
2773	Dynamically watching your web site via a PHP wrapper On our web site, we "wrap" all of our pages in a PHP shell, which allows us to reference extra information easily within any of our pages, provide up to date course and hotel data on every page, and keep a dynamic log of current visitors in a database. The wrapper is applied through Apache http server ...	2010-05-21
2478	How did I do THAT? I had great fun putting together yesterday's blog about My train journey from Melksham, with a whole lot of images in the text rather than real words. For my first tests, the images sat on the line like this: which starts to look really ugly once you 've added more that a couple of pictures - so I ...	2009-10-26
1938	Predictive Load Balancing - PHP and / or Java Load Balancing Algorithms - the standard offerings How do you share out the requests when you're load balancing? The computer (or other device) that's sharing out the load needs to make a decision as to where it should forward each request, and there are a number of different option commonly available. a) ...	2008-12-15 (longer)
1778	Pointing all the web pages in a directory at a database Do you want a web directory of pages, where each of them has its own page name (URL), but there isn't really a separate page for you to maintain - all the data is held in some sort of database on your server, and the pages are created automatically from the data as they're requested? You can do this ...	2008-08-30

Examples from our training material

backend	Back end task - Predictive Load Balancing
frontend	Front end task - Predictive Load Balancing

Background information

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Topics covered in this module

Rewriting URLS / mod rewrite
Handling multiple pages through the same script.
Scripting Style sheets.
handling images via a database.
Handling error pages - making 404 pages work for you.
Tailoring your PHP with php.ini.

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