Creating Localhost PHP Web Development Platform

There are many web development packages available on the net, designed to run on different operating systems. Few of them are designed for PHP development such as  XAMPP, Apache2Triad, VertrigoServ. XAMPP is also available on Linux, Solaris and Mac OS X. But today we are going to focus on installing Wampserver on windows. 

Perl- Access is denied :couldn’t create child process: 720005

This error entry in apache’s error log when you try to run perl script could be very frustrating. The only solution is to narrow down the issue. Make sure web development environment is ready, Perl Binary is Installed, if everything is O.K, open and review Apache’s httpd.conf file, which is usually located in Apache/conf folder.

Microsoft Access using PHP PDO

Microsoft Access database is not a preferred choice to store sensitive or large amount of data, because it is not so robust as other database, you will soon discover several limitation as your database size grows. However for small business and individuals Access database is ideal alternative, it is cheap to setup and simple to use! Let’s find out how easily we can play with Access database using PHP PDO.

Randomized quote display PHP

You can use example below in many different situations, idea is to create a list of quotes in array, and using PHP array_rand(), we can pick random entries out of an array.