http://www.chriscodes.com/articles/ Most recent articles from www.chriscodes.com en-us chris@chriscodes.com http://www.chriscodes.com/articles/Connecting_to_MSSQL_from_PHP_under_Linux/ (c)2004 Skippy, Romanian Web Developers, http://rowd.org/ 1 Introduction You may wonder why connecting to Microsoft SQL Server would be any different (or more complicated) than connecting to any other database supported by PHP. First of all, in order ... Sat, 24 Jul 2004 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.chriscodes.com/articles/PHP_5,_MySQL_on_Apache,_Windows_XP_Home/ I recently decided to install PHP 5 to try it out before it's released. I figured I won't be doing any hardcore testing on it, but do want to start playing with the new features, so Release Candidate 2 sounded pretty good. This installation is ... Sat, 01 May 2004 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.chriscodes.com/articles/Adding_Secondary_MySQL_Connections_With_PHP/ Recently my host's MySQL server went down. I have an old remotely hosted MySQL account, so I threw my data there and put up some new connection parameters. But then I figured I'd write a little something to make it more automatic. Let's say "mysql.server ... Tue, 03 Feb 2004 00:00:00 -0600 http://www.chriscodes.com/articles/Tips_for_PHP_development_on_Windows/ PHP can be very confusing at first, especially for those coming from a Windows environment. Here's a few simple tips to get PHP running on Windows smoothly. First, if possible, run it on Apache. Yes it can run on IIS, but I have seen wierd things happen ... Mon, 05 Jan 2004 00:00:00 -0600 http://www.chriscodes.com/articles/How_To_Configure_DNS_on_a_Windows_LAN/ I figured this out after growing tired of having to remember a bunch of IP's for different sites I was developing at home. This will work with IIS, Apache, Tomcat and I'd assume any other server software. This artice assumes you already have your server ... Sat, 11 Oct 2003 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.chriscodes.com/articles/How_To_Install_IIS_on_Windows_XP_Home/ This is my re-vision of a tutorial originally written by Richard Sandoz found in the microsoft.public.inetserver.asp.general newsgroup. Thanks to him I was able to get IIS running on an XP home laptop. I found this awhile back, but the warnings sounded ... Fri, 10 Oct 2003 00:00:00 -0500