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Topeka, KS – High school sophomore Brett Tyson was suspended today after teachers learned he may be using PHP.

Relative Benefits of your Platform

There seems to be a fair amount of debate between the relative security benefits enjoyed by Microsoft and Linux/Unix hosted sites.

If You Needed Anymore Convincing

One of the reasons PHP is so widely respected as a web development language
is because it’s been used and tested extensively by the web community. Here
are some testimonials
and a list of articles comparing PHP with other web technologies:

• PHP versus ASP
• Switching
  to PHP: What’s the Language Difference?

• A Comparison
  of PHP and Cold Fusion

• PHP,
  Perl, Java servlets — Which one’s right for you?

• PHP
  vs Other Languages

• ASP/VBScript
  vs. PHP

• 7 Reasons
  Why PHP is Better than ASP

• Comparing
  PHP with Perl for Dynamic Web Pages

• PHP
  Market Positioning

• Comparing
  Server side technology

What You See is What You Get

Unlike PHP, ASP is a proprietary technology that requires upgrades and the purchase of many extra packages such as ASPEncrypt, Qmail and SA-FileUp for encryption, sending mail (with attachments etc) and file uploading. All these functions are built into PHP and don’t represent hidden costs.

When a business buys ASP, if you need encryption — you must buy ASPEncrypt; if you need email management — you must buy ServerObject’s QMail. If you Need file uploading — you must buy Software Artisans SA-FileUp; and the same goes for usermanagement components, image generation, and for pdf file generation.

All this is built into PHP for free.

PHP Leaves Competitors Standing

Many studies have been done comparing the performance/output of the web’s leading server-side solutions. Here are a selection of benchmark results:

• Webmonkey’s PHP / JSP / Coldfusion / ASP comparison
• PHP versus Cold Fusion, benchmarks from PHP Everywhere
• The Chamas Performance Benchmark tests: OS / CPU / Client benchmarks
  for a variety of web scripting technologies
• 7 reasons why PHP is better than ASP

In terms of speed the major difference when comparing with ASP is that ASP is built on .COM architecture, which means when many functions require the creation of new .COM objects, creating an overhead that PHP doesn’t have.

Another way of helping you produce cleaner code is an idea borrowed from Perl introduced to PHP in version 4 known as ‘Here Printing’.

How would you like automate the transfer of documents between servers ?

Say, for example, one of your servers collected daily news documents and you wanted to make these available to one of your customers on a separate box. Quite often sites request documents from remote sources and the pages take an age to load because of the usual internet traffic clog and poor bandwidth.

The way around this is to have the document available locally. This requirement comes up quite often in web projects, and in fact is very easy to do with a shell script automated by a cron job. Click read more for the script.

To create database “mydb”

or to give the same privileges but from any host:

** this setup depends on the user or unix account having already been created

Copying One Database from one Machine to Another
Type the following at the command prompt: