PEAR provides a set of development tools for common PHP libraries and extensions to speed up application projects in PHP. Read our introduction guide to PEAR to learn more.

The php.ini configuration file can help you set a broad number of parameters on your server including paths for certain types of files, file extensions and parameters for databases.

Any time you need to compare a value relative to another value or an anchor to determine what types of content to show, conditional statements provide the underlying logical structure you need.

PHP is short for PHP Hypertext Preprocessor. It is a programming language that web programmers use to write codes and develop web applications. PHP is an open source programming language and can be downloaded free of cost. This article talks about what PHP is and about PHP Web Hosting.
PHP is one of the most widely [...]

Shared hosting has always very popular among the average website owners as it’s one of the cheapest hosting solution. Not everybody can afford to have their own dedicated server.
While shared hosting may suit most website requirements, in some cases you’ll need to change some PHP settings. And as you don’t have access to server administration, [...]

As I was installing TYPO3 on my Lunarpages account yesterday, I noticed that PHP4 was the active version on my account. This sort of confused me as I thought I enabled PHP5 through cPanel as they mention in their knowledgebase. I soon found out that enabling PHP5 through cPanel will only work for you main [...]

This is finally the last post of this series on How To Install Your Own Web Server. In my last post I’ve shown you how to setup a virtual host and now we’re going to use this to install phpMyAdmin.
Of course, the purpose of this tutorial is not really to install phpMyAdmin but it’s rather [...]

In my last post of this series, I’ve shown you how to create a MySQL database using the GUI tools. In the fifth part of this tutorial, we’re now going to see how to add a virtual host.
What Is A Virtual Host?
A virtual host allows your web server to serve multiple websites from a unique [...]

Unfortunately I haven’t seen any good web hosting control panel for Apache on Windows (if you know some, leave a comment!). So that’s why we’re going to need something else to manage the MySQL server.
MySQL provides a set of GUI tools that allows you to perform such tasks as managing databases, managing database users, configuring [...]

In the third part of this tutorial, we’re now going to install PHP 5 on Windows.
In the two previous posts, we’ve seen how to install Apache and MySQL on a Windows computer so you you should already have a working web server and database server.

This is the second part of our tutorial on how to install your own home web server. In the first, you’ve seen how to install Apache HTTP Server on Windows. Now we’re going to see how to install MySQL, a free database server.
MySQL comes in two flavors: Enterprise Edition and the MySQL Community Server. Of [...]

Sometimes I like to have my own web server, whether it is for testing or development purposes. Since I use Windows XP or Vista on my personnal computer, my favorite setup is Windows, Apache, PHP and MySQL. This setup is also known as WAMP. And maybe you guessed it, the Linux equivalent of this setup [...]

It seems some people were a bit confused when it came to installing PHP5 on Windows Server 2008 using FastCGI. So to make things clearer, I’ve made a little video to show you how I’ve done it.
Take note that this WILL NOT WORK on other versions of Windows than this one.

I hope this will help [...]

I’ve just installed Sphider, a free PHP search engine, on this very website. I thought that Wordpress’ search function lacked a lot of features like indexing content outside the blog itself, advanced search capabilities, etc.
I used to use phpDig a lot but it’s been a long time since an update has been made available. While [...]

I have just got off HostGator’s live chat support. I gotta say I was quite surprised by the fact that they provide such a quick and efficient service. I spoke with Matthew S. from HostGator’s technical support team, he was very kind and professional.
I asked him about having PHP5 enabled on my account instead of PHP4. [...]