When you use MySQL and PHP, a PHP script can retrieve data from a MySQL database to display on the web page before the page is returned to the client. Such pages are known as dynamic web pages and can perform multiple actions including sending e-mails, embedding other web page content and interacting with databases. 

To learn more about developing on the web with MySQL and PHP, take the MySQL and PHP: Developing Dynamic Web Applications course. You can take this 4-day live instructor-led course as a:

• Live-Virtual Event: Attend a live event from your own desk - no travel required. Choose from a selection of your events already on the schedule including 22nd July, 9th September and 27th October 2014.
• In-Class Event: …

Installing Nginx With PHP5 (And PHP-FPM) And MySQL Support (LEMP) On Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Nginx (pronounced "engine x") is a free, open-source, high-performance HTTP server. Nginx is known for its stability, rich feature set, simple configuration, and low resource consumption. This tutorial shows how you can install Nginx on an Ubuntu 14.04 server with PHP5 support (through PHP-FPM) and MySQL support (LEMP = Linux + nginx (pronounced "engine x") + MySQL + PHP) .

Installing Apache2 With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Ubuntu 13.10 (LAMP)

LAMP is short for Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP. This tutorial shows how you can install an Apache2 webserver on anUbuntu 13.04 server with PHP5 support (mod_php) and MySQL support.

“How do I learn PHP, MySQL, GII, CSS, HTML, OOP, and all that quickly, without becoming confused or frustrated but still get to do the cools stuff?” I get this question on a very frequent basis and until last Friday, I had to suggest a number of ways of pulling together all the pieces together. But it still lacked a comprehensive theme and flow. Then last Friday at LonestarPHP, the LonestarPHP organizers teamed with PHPWomen,to provide a foundations track that covered all the above and more. Davey Shafik, Elizabeth Smith, Matt Frost, and Michelle Sanver put together an amazing day of learning with PHPBridge for a crowd of about 40 novices,

The material is under a Creative Commons License and can be used by other events. The idea was borrowed form RailsBridge and …

Installing Apache2 With PHP5 And MySQL Support On Fedora 20 (LAMP)

LAMP is short for Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP. This tutorial shows how you can install an Apache2 webserver on a Fedora 20 server with PHP5 support (mod_php) and MySQL support.

Install Apache2, PHP5 And MySQL Support On CentOS 6.5 (LAMP)

LAMP is short for Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP. This tutorial shows how you can install an Apache2 webserver on a CentOS 6.4 server with PHP5 support (mod_php) and MySQL support.

To create dynamic web pages, you can use PHP, a server-side, HTML-embedded scripting language. PHP is available for most operating systems and can access the MySQL database. PHP provides MySQL API extensions, MySQL Improved Extension and MySQL Functions.

To learn more about using MySQL and PHP, you can consult the MySQL and PHP reference manual. You can also take the MySQL and PHP: Developing Dynamic WebApplications training course.

Through a hands-on approach, this 4-day instructor-led course …

Having noticed the release of PHP 5.5.10 last week while I was speaking at UTOUG, I checked the deprecated mysqli functions web page. There weren’t any deprecated by 5.5. Unfortuantely, there were six mysqli functions deprecated in 5.3 and removed in 5.4. Unfortunately, many of my posted code examples use 5.2 or 5.3 where they would have worked. The deprecated mysqli functions are:

• mysqli_bind_param
• mysqli_bind_result
• mysqli_client_encoding
• mysqli_fetch
• mysqli_param_count …

Over the last few days different people asked me for comments about PHP dropping MySQL support. These questions confused me, but meanwhile I figured out where these rumors come from and what they mean.

The simple facts are: No, PHP is not dropping MySQL support and we, Oracle's MySQL team, continue working with the PHP community.

For the long story we first have to remember what "PHP's MySQL support" includes. There key part are four extensions which are part of the main PHP tree:

• ext/mysql
• ext/mysqli
• ext/pdo_mysql
• ext/mysqlnd

The first one, ext/mysql provides the mysql_* functions. This is the classic interface taught in many (old) books and used by lots of (old) software. mysqli is "mysql improved", this is a younger extension providing access to all MySQL features. pdo_mysql contains the driver …

The LinkedIn MySQL DB Development group posed a questions on how to handle images. Naturally, the argument always goes: Should images be deployed in the database or the file system? I believe they should be stored in the database because the cost and time associated is too high with regard to managing files, a file naming schema, and backing up the file system discretely from the database.

Since there’s a significant difference between the backup of transactional data and image data, they should be placed in different databases. The imagedb database is where you would place the images and large text descriptions, as shown in the MySQL Workbench ERD:

The imagedb ERD splits the foreign key references back to the system_user table, which contains the individual user credentials. The …