Covers <ul> <li>Prepare <li>BLOB/CLOB/LOB support <li>Calling storing procedures and PL/SQL <li>Bind parameters, IN and OUT parameters <li>REF CURSORs <li>Error-handling <li>Date and time management </ul>

Here is an extensive compilation of tips on how to optimise Apache on Linux and Unix for PHP and CGI programs. The tips can also be applied to Perl and Python.

PHP Tunisie Magazine is a FREE monthly french magazine for PHP Professionnals. The magazine is created and maintained by PHPTunisie members.

Give code and examples on the basics of plotting geo-coordinates on a raster map of the world using PHP and GD.

PHP is an Open Source language that is widely popular on the web. However because PHP so popular in shared hosting environments, many people have an impression that PHP is only for small scale web-sites. This is patently untrue, and PHP is in use in many large scale web sites such as Yahoo Finance and for the creation of large web applications such as IMP. This article is an attempt to readdress the balance and show how PHP is used in the enterprise.

This is a brief article on comparison between PHP and Java language. Discussion on history, advantages, and statistics.

This article by Zend describes why PHP is gaining popularity as the enterprise solution for developing dynamic Web applications.

Unapologetically, my objective in this article is to show that PHP and MySQL are both mature and widespread technologies that can be considered a primary web-application platform, not just an alternative to ASP, JSP, Cold Fusion and a host of other web-app scripting solutions out there. I'm developing this article in an evolutionary way and will add as I see trends, get new data, have new ideas for how to discover the case for PHP. According to some stats, there are over 12,000,000 sites on the internet now running PHP. So, what's behind that and why is it so popular?

Can't decide whether to use PHP scripts, Perl CGIs, or Java servlets for your next Web development project? This article will help you decide by providing a side-by-side comparison of the functioning source code of all three languages

The recent benchmarking spree of PhpLib, ADODB, PEAR DB, Metabase and Native MySQL has brought more questions up how to to design fast and powerful class libraries in PHP. This short article describes how to design a fast and powerful class libraries in PHP.