How many of you wondered if there can be a simpler/faster way to chat with no downloads or installs of chat software, without the constraints of proxies or firewalls. I don't think I am the only one. So how would that be possible? Well, how about having a chat directly on a website, with no JavaScript, Java Applets, or IRC Clients? How about implementing one with our good ol' pals: PHP and MySQL?...

    A Little PostgreSQL History

PostgreSQL started its life in the halls of the University of California at Berkeley. During that time it was known as Ingres. Many developers helped during the early phase of development of the PostgreSQL code base. PostgreSQL left Berkeley and moved into the open source realm in the summer of 1996. This was a major challenge for the developers; however, it proved to be a vital period in the overall development of what we know as PostgreSQL. In the early days of open source development there where four main developers: Thomas Lockhart, Vadim Mikheev, Bruce Momjian and Marc Fournier...

    This tutorial will go over the basics of installing MySQL for Linux. You will also learn how to start the MySQL server, create a database, create a table, fill the table with data, and view its contents...

    "Yes, Mrs. Smith, I realize your site isn't available. I am doing what I can to get ahold of the Server Company now. No, the power here is fine, and so are my computers. No, I cannot access your site either. It is hosted on a server in Virginia"....

    History of MySQL

MySQL is a popular SQL Open Source Database developed by the Scandinavian company, MySQL AB. MySQL is a very fast, multi-threaded, multi-user, and robust Relational Database Management System (RDMS)...

    Many of you probably have already heard or read about the ability that PHP has to run as a command line interpreter (CLI). Using PHP as a CLI gives a programmer powers similar to Perl or even many of the shells found on Unix/Linux systems...

    In the beginning, the file was void, and without text. The Programmer brought text to the file by saying "Let there be hello world" and there was hello world, and it was good. But soon hello world was not as good as it once was, and the Programmer said "let there be change!" And where there once was static content in the file, there was now variable content. Beholding the creation, the Programmer was happy, and all was well...

    WooWOO! We've connected! "Uhh, now what?" Now we log in. This will be your first and most important step to actually WORKING with (rather then creating) socket connections...

    Debugging is essentially of a way of life. Debugging keeps you sane, and provides you with peace of mind. Debugging makes it so that you don't have to pull your hair out when something does not work. Debugging is the most direct way of finding problems in your code, and it's exactly what I hope to help you learn to do right now...

    Sockets have long been important to the underlying nature and structure of things in, on and around computers. They are very powerful. PHP allows you to harness them at the expense of a couple of late nights, and many cans of liquid caffeine yet, it seems, that too few people truly understand sockets...

    A couple of years ago, I was doing some work for a client. They wanted to use a database on their site and bad news was I did not know how to accomplish this without the help from an outsider. I also did not make that money from the job...