Linux GUI Tools for MySQL

Josef Nankivell — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:20:27 +0000

MySQL is definitely one of the leading open source database projects around, and mainstream companies like Google and Yahoo! have successfully incorporated MySQL into their highly powerful and scalable server platforms. LAMP stacks are increasingly becoming popular, and MySQL is a great tool for beginners and students to learn databases. As much as developers and server admins love their SQL, it always helps to have GUI tools that make the process more efficient, faster, and simplified.

MySQL Administrator

MySQL Administrator is a powerful visual administration console from the MySQL folks that enables users to easily administer their MySQL environment and gain significantly better visibility into how their databases are operating. It integrates database management and maintenance into a single, seamless environment, with a clear and intuitive graphical user interface. With tons of options to administer, monitor, troubleshoot, and replicate, it’s a must have for all MySQL database admins.

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A Beginners Guide to Programming PHP on Linux

Josef Nankivell — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 20:23:59 +0000

This is the first article in a series for programming with PHP in Linux. This article will provide you with a brief introduction to the open-source PHP language and show you how to set up your Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP programming environment and code your first PHP application.

Introduction

What is PHP? PHP is a recursive acronym stands for PHP Hypertext Preprocessor. In your hours spent trawling the Internet you have probably come across PHP numerous times. You may not know how powerful the language is, and what it can do and you may not have even seen any PHP code before now! PHP has the awesome position of being the only open-source server-side scripting language that’s both powerful and satisfying to learn!

Why Use PHP?

HTML is completely static. By using and HTML, we can create dynamic sites that will change depending on certain conditions. Not to mention that PHP is powerful, scalable and best of all, free. Data-driven applications can be mashed up quickly with the built-in database support in PHP, add an excellent manual, a friendly community and a price of zero – and you’ve got my favourite programming language!

Setting Up Your Environment

As with all programming languages, before you begin to staring programming PHP, you need to have a development environment set up on your box. In the following PHP tutorial we will be using PHP with the Apache Web server running on Linux. However, you can just as easily use PHP with Apache on any operating system. Detailed instructions on how to set up a LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) development environment on are here, in another of my articles.

Learning Some Syntax

PHP code sits inside a page with the HTML, as with HTML it is made up of plain-text. Therefore, a page that shows “We are about to learn some awesome PHP skillz (yes, skills with a z)” would be inside an HTML page named filename.php like this:

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That is some simple PHP code below:

echo ‘Hi, my name is Josef’;

?>

See? The HTML is rendered as HTML and the code between the and ?> gets executed as PHP.

You may notice some instances where the “php” after the question mark is missing. This is a lazy practice known as “PHP short tags” – full tags should always be used! Also, PHP statements end in a semi-colon, however, a semi-colon is not required to terminate the last line of a PHP block, as the PHP closing tag ?> contains a semi-colon.

Next Time

I hope you enjoyed this brief introduction to PHP and that you come back for part two! In the next article we will take a look at more statements, how to comment and execute your beautiful PHP code!

View the rest of the article series at Bright Hub:

1. A Guide to Linux Programming with PHP

2. A Guide to Linux Programming with PHP – Commenting and Executing Code

3. A Guide to Linux Programming with PHP – Variables & Data Types

4. A Guide to Linux Programming with PHP – HTML Forms and PHP

5. A Guide to Linux Programming with PHP – Arrays

6. A Guide to Linux Programming with PHP – Associative and Multidimensional Arrays

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