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Enrolled in an Astronomy Course
I enrolled in a Graduate Certificate of Science in Astronomy course at Swinburne University of Technology today. The course is run entirely online and starts next week. As I am only doing two subjects per semester, it should take me a year to earn the certificate. I may translate this into a Grad Dip or…
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Following the creek
Needing to clear my head today, I went for a walk through the suburb. I found myself walking a firetrail through the valley separating Menai from Illawong. It’s a pretty trail, sandstone boulders and the eucalyptus bush screening out the sight of most of the houses. I followed the creek (Still Creek) until the end…
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Why PHP?
Why choose PHP over other languages like Perl, ASP, Java and Python for web application development? It depends on the requirements of the site you are developing for, but a few good reasons include: PHP is designed from scratch for the web. Other languages, like Perl, Visual Basic and Python are more flexible, but can…
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What is PHP?
PHP is a scripting language, somewhat similar to Perl, but designed from the outset for web development. It can also be used on the command line and for developing GUI applications (PHP-GTK), but in this book we will concentrate on the use of PHP as a web server module. Unlike the client side JavaScript (ECMAScript)…
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System Requirements
To follow the examples given in this book, the ideal setup should be: Apache and PHP 4.3.x+ running under Unix or Linux A database system (examples tested on MySQL, PostgreSQL and will probably work for Oracle) Sufficient user privileges to install PEAR libraries You may not meet the above conditions if your website is hosted…