Many features that you see on the web require that the GD library be enabled on your PHP server. You may need the GD library if you are attempting to display CAPTCHA graphics somewhere on your site. In a default PHP installation, the GD library should already be enabled. The following How To explains how to determine if the GD library is enabled on your PHP server, and how you might be able to turn this on. What Do You Need to Start?
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In order to avoid any headaches while going through the case studies in this book, it’s best to install the necessary software and configure your environment the right way from the start. Although we assume you already have some experience developing PHP applications, we’ll quickly go through the steps to install your machine with the necessary software.
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Businesses that use Microsoft Access eventually begin to struggle against its limitations. Now they have an alternative: Move data repositories to a system that provides better performance and reliability and that is more flexible in how it allows information to be used. NuSphere has the technology you need to follow this course, Gemini the table type for the MySQL database. Together, Gemini and the MySQL database provide a business strength database server that runs under Windows, Linux, or Unix. Gemini provides performance and reliability enhancements such as row-level locking, transaction support, and automatic crash recovery.
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This is a quick guide to install and configure the Apache web-server with PHP and JSP support on a Windows XP Pro machine. Let me know if this helps you out! Feedback is appreciated. This is my first “published” guide. I made it for my own reference. Why not share?
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his tutorial explains the installation of PHP 5, bundled with Apache and MySQL server on a Linux machine. The tutorial was written primarily for SuSE 9.2, 9.3, 10.0 & 10.1, but most of the steps ought to be valid for all Linux-like operating systems. We will set up PHP as a shared module, being loaded into Apache2 dynamically during the server startup. These instructions are known to work for PHP versions: 5.0.4 through 5.2.1.
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