Dina Research School

Workshop: Databases and webprogramming

Tune Landboskole, 13-14 January 2005

Materials and links

If you want to get an idea about PHP before the Thursday-Friday
workshop, the following materials are recommended:

• The PHP manual at http://www.php.net/manual/en/introduction.php
  Chapter 2 of the manual is a tutorial.
• There are many books on PHP, including this booklet (in Danish):
  Thomas G. Kristensen: Start på PHP. Libris/IDG Forlag 2001 and 2004.

A complete list of books is at http://www.php.net/books.php

We have configured Apache+PHP+Mysql on a Linux server at KVL; we will use that during the course. This is also a standard package at most web hosting companies worldwide.

If in addition you want to set up a similar thing on a Windows server at home or in your organization, you will need:

• Apache webserver 1.3
  Windows version from http://httpd.apache.org/docs/windows.html
• PHP 4.3
  From http://www.php.net/downloads.php
• Mysql server 4.1
  From http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/mysql/4.1.html at the bottom of the page.

Note that this is not necessary to do the exercises in the course; they will use the server already configured at KVL.

It should be said also that the teachers don't know much about the details of installation under Windows

Author: phd@dina.kvl.dk. Updated: 10 januar 2005