FileMaker is a popular and powerful desktop database application toolkit. Recently, FileMaker, Inc. released a beta version of the FileMaker API for PHP, which allows PHP to more easily talk to the FileMaker Server Advanced product. Learn how to leverage FileMaker’s strengths to deliver complex Web applications in a fraction of the time it would take using a typical SQL database.
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PHP?Nuke is free software, released under the GNU License. It is a CMS (Content Managment System) that integrates in its inside all the instruments that are used to create a site/portal of information (meant in broad sense). Given the immense number of present functions in the installation and in an even greater quantity of modules developed from third parties, the system is also adept to the management of
• Intranet business,
• e?commerce systems,
• corporate portals ,
• public agencies,
• news agencies,
• online companies,
• information sites,
• e?learning systems
• and so on…
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This manual is designed to give you an understanding of how to install, configure, customize, and use Analysis Cubes. To make best use of the product, you should be familiar with Windows ®, Microsoft Dynamics GP, SQL Server, OLAP cubes, and Excel PivotTable reports.
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SpatialWare ® allows you to store, access, manage and manipulate spatial data as a standard part of your business data. Spatial data contains geographic information so that it may be represented on a map. Customer records with name, address and telephone numbers are only records in a database. Once the address can be tied to a geographic location on earth, the record becomes spatial information. Display that record with other spatial information on a map and you can see the relationships among the records, allowing you to make more informed decisions about your business data.
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The health of databases is of critical importance to business managers, application owners and enterprise IT teams. The life of an organization is literally represented inside its database servers. Take away the ability to reliably run enterprise applications or complete customer transactions and you will watch the business come to a standstill. One quantifiable indicator of risk to the enterprise of business disruption, or leakage of confidential data, is the number of vulnerabilities that exist in the technical infrastructure. There is a correlation between the number of vulnerabilities and the number of undiscovered vulnerabilities as well as the risk to the enterprise of an exploit successfully launched against the vulnerable database. It is very clear that the more vulnerabilities that exist, the more likely it is that an attack will be successful.
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You can download the MySQL database from the MySQL website http://www.mysql.com by clicking on the downloads tab. Scroll down to the MySQL database server & standard clients section and select the latest production release of MySQL, 4.0 at the time of writing.
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MySQL and Perl have been around for quite a while. They are still widely used even if the “fashion” is changing. This article talks about these two products working together as a whole, either on the Internet or on your local network. The provided example is written for Unix systems, free or not, even if it can be adapted to other widespread “systems”.
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Over the course of this book, it will be my job to guide you as you take your first steps beyond the HTML world of client-side site design. Together, we’ll explore what it takes to develop the kind of large, content-driven sites that are so successful today, but which can be a real headache to maintain if they aren’t built right. Before we get started, you need to gather together the tools you’ll need for the job. In this first chapter, I’ll guide you as you download and set up the two software packages you’ll need: PHP and MySQL.
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