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ASIA : Nextreaming Corporation, a leader in mobile video software for operators and handset manufacturers announced that its Nexembedded™ Suite was selected to equip PG-K6000V of Curitel Communications Inc., a major handset manufacturer in Korea, with advanced multimedia features unavailable on any previous CDMA 1x EV-DO handset.

The PG-K6000V provides advanced features such as a 1.3 megapixel CMOS camera and MPEG-4 streaming player working on KTF’s EV-DO network in Korea. The PG-K6000V’s clamshell form factor with swivel hinge simplifies creating pictures and movies. Nextreaming licensed its Nexembedded™ player, a MPEG-4 audio/video player supporting downloaded and streaming content playback, Nexembedded™ Camcorder, a MPEG-4 video encoder, Nexembedded™ Camera, a JPEG codec and sophisticated image management tools, and provided professional services, to integrate them into the handset.

“The release of the PG-K6000V marks an important milestone in our mobile multimedia evolution,” said M.S. Song, President & CEO of Curitel Communications Inc., “Working with Nextreaming, we were able to efficiently integrate a complete multimedia solution, enabling our handset to enter the market on time and with more advanced features than any other in the market. We plan to develop high-tech multimedia mobile phones continuously and aim to be one of the leading mobile phone companies in the world market.”
Nextreaming’s optimized software based camcorder creates personal movie clips of up to 3 hours without adversely affecting battery life. It also enables a camera supporting up to 1280×960 resolution, with better resolution than other handsets currently released in the EV-DO market.

“Nextreaming is honored to have been selected by Curitel to include our multimedia software in their advanced handset.” said Dr. IL-TAEK LIM, President & CEO Nextreaming, “Adding multimedia software solutions within advanced handsets provides additional functionality with little incremental costs. Choosing Nextreaming provides partners such as Curitel with the most complete and optimized multimedia solution on the market today.”

Nextreaming is demonstrating this handset and other products at Mobile Entertainment Market 2004 in London between June 2~3, and CommunicAsia 2004 in Singapore between June 15~18

Source: http://www.3g.co.uk/PR/June2004/7850.htm

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You have learned How to install PHP and Apache on Windows and Linux manually in my previous articles. Today I am going to tell you about ready made installers that make your lives easy to install PHP, MySQL and Apache on Windows by a single setup file.

WAMP: Installs PHP , MySQL and Apache etc on Windows

WAMP5 will allow you to discover all the PHP5 new features :

Objet support, SQLite built-in, SimpleXML, exceptions…

WAMP5 is build with standard conf files and most of the extensions. WAMP5 add-ons wil add new features to your server like PHP4, Perl, Zend Optimizer…

For further information please visit their official website at http://www.wampserver.com/en/

the other well-known is

XWAMP: Installs PHP , MySQL and Apache etc on Windows

XAMPP is an easy to install Apache distribution containing MySQL, PHP and Perl. XAMPP is really very easy to install and to use - just download, extract and start.

for further information please visit their website at http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html

Another good installer called PHPtriad can be found at http://sourceforge.net/projects/phptriad

However, this is a dead open source project (at the time of writing this article) and is no more supported by the vendor so it contains old versions of Apache, PHP and MySQL.

I hope by now it will be piece of cake for you to setup your PC to run PHP MySQL and Apache with Windows and Linux. Do it as soon as possible because in the coming articles we will start learning PHP.

Good Day!

We are proceeding well as I am getting your feedback on the previous articles of Fast PHP Tutorial Series and I am happy to hear that they are working and you are learning something…

Till now we have learned “How to Install PHP On Windows” and “How to install PHP on Linux”. Lets start our today’s article which is about installing Apache on Windows so that it can support your PHP scripts on your PC.

First of all download apache,Win32 Binary (MSI Installer), from http://httpd.apache.org/download.cgi

You can choose the mirror according to your location to get fast downloading speed.

when you will run the downloaded installation file make sure to put right settings info may be as follow,

Network Domain: localhost

Server Name: localhost

Admin Email: youremail@domain.com

You may get Anti-Virus or Windows XP SP2 security alert about running apache as service. Allow apache to run as service on your windows.

You must run apache to execute PHP scripts and you can stop it optionally when you are not working with PHP and don’t need apache to waste your system resources.

After apache installation you will be able to see Apache Status Icon in your System Tray; sorry… what did you say? what is system tray? … well, the area where your system displays click (time) or display msn, yahoo and icq etc icons is called system tray.

Apache shows a green kinda icon if it is running and red icon if stopped. you can take mouse on the icon to see the status on mouse-tip. You can also start and stop apache from Start Menu as Apache have made a menu from where you can also run Test Configuration to check your apache installation. If you click on Test Configuration and a dos window appears and then disappears it means installation is working otherwise it will display informative error.

Now to test your Apache Installation on Windows open a browser window and type

http://127.0.0.1/ or http://localhost/ in the address bar. If it shows you Apache home page it means your apache is working.

Now you have to tell Apache where to pick your website pages, for this open the http.conf (apache configuration file) with notepad and search for DocumentRoot and put your website files exact location which may be,

DocumentRoot “C:/PHP_code/htdocs”

now search for and paste your DocumentRoot path here too
Remember whenever you make changes to Apache configuration file you need to restart apache to make the changes take effects. So, what are you waiting for… restart and get ready to dive deep into the PHP-Sea as your system is ready by now to start learning PHP.

Dear Students,

Today we will learn how can we install PHP on Linux. Lets go through these steps,

You must be logged in with the admin account to install PHP so login as root

We need to get installation files from the PHP Website and save it on your hard drive. You can download it to your download directory where you download all the files from internet or if you have not made one yet then lets create a download directory

mkdir /usr/local/download

Now we will download installation file from php ftp website to our download directory

    cd /usr/local/download
    ftp ftp.php.net
    cd pub/distributions
    bin
    get php-5.2.0.tar.gz
    bye

the file name may differ according to the PHP version you are downloading. I have downloaded the latest stable release of PHP i.e PHP 5.2.0

Now we are ready to install PHP. Lets go to the download directory

cd /usr/local/download

Now use this tar command

 tar xzf php-5.2.0.tar.gz -C ../etc

this command will install PHP from download directory to /usr/loca/etc/

Did you see the name of installation folder in /etc/ directory? …arrrgh! isn’t it ugly? lets rename it to something good,

 cd /usr/local/etc
 ln -s php-5.2.0 php

now it is acceptable … the next step is to compile PHP with this command

 ./configure –with-apache=../httpd –with-config-file-path=/www/conf –enable-track-vars
now make a PHP executable with

make

which will take some time and then install it with

make install

do you think we are done? well, unfortunately no… we need to add php module to apache with this,

cd ../httpd
./config.status –activate-module=src/modules/php5/libphp5.a
 

then

make

then stop apache and install new binaries,

bin/apachectl stop
make install

restart apache now

bin/apachectl start

if you have read my article - How to install php on windows then you must know by now that we have to change move the php.ini file to the proper location

cd ../php
cp php5.ini-dist /www/conf/php5ini
and remove-dist from its name.

Do you think we are done with PHP installation on Linux? well, fortunately yes.. we are … now you can make a test page with

< ?php echo "PHP ! I'm gonna get you.."; ?>

and browse this page if you see what you wrote your php is working fine otherwise it has some problem, test all the steps again and if still stuck with it ask for help here

Hi dear pupils!

Today we will learn,

1. How to Install PHP on Windows
2. How to Install PHP on Linux
3. How to Install Apache on Windows to support PHP
4. How to run PHP with IIS

lets begin with How to Install PHP On Windows

Well, first of all visit PHP Official Website and download Windows Binary Installation files. There are different versions of PHP the latest version is PHP 5.2.0 at the time of writing this article.

One more thing, you will see two kinds of Windows Binary files .zip and .exe I am going to follow .zip file installation as .exe will not install PHP as Apache module on Windows. So if you are going to follow this tutorial then download .zip file.

Now create a directory for your PHP installation typically on “C:\PHP”, and create a temporary directory, may be “C:\PHP\temp” to unzip the files. As we don’t need all the files included in the .zip archive for PHP installation so first we are going to unzip the files in the temporary directory that we just created and then we will copy only those files to main “C:\PHP” directory which are needed for PHP installation.

Now unzip the downloaded file to the temporary directory “C:\PHP\temp” and copy the following files to main PHP directory “C:\PHP”

• php.exe
• php5ts.dll
• php5apache.dll
• php5apache2.dll

the file names will differ according to the version of PHP you downloaded. Remember we need php5apcahe.dll if you want to run PHP with Apache 1.3 version and php5apache2.dll for Apache 2.x version so you can skip one of them. You can find these files in the temporary directory (where you unzipped the zip archive) under ’sapi’ folder.
Also if you want to use the different PHP extensions then copy files in extensions folder from temporary directory to main PHP directory though make sure your PHP is working fine before messing up with extensions’ installation.

Also MySQL is already enabled by now and you don’t need to do anything extra to enable it with PHP.

Now copy the php.ini-dist file to your Windows installation folder typically C:\WINDOWS and rename it to php.ini (remove -dist from the name)

Congratulations! you are done with the PHP installation on Windows

However, let me tell you some additional information about configuring PHP to fit to your needs and requirements.

PHP Configuration:

If you want to use posted variables with their direct names e.g $var1, $name etc then you need to switch on the Global Variables in the php.ini file that we just moved to Windows installation folder. Open the php.ini file with notepad and search for this line

register_globals = Off

change Off to On and you are done.

Remember if you will not turn it on then you would have to access your posted variables with the REQUEST GLOBAL ARRAY reference i.e $_REQUEST[’var1′] etc

Setting Up SMTP SERVER:

If you want to send emails from your local PC using your ISP then you need to set up your SMTP server in the php.ini file , search for this code
[mail function]

;for win32 only

SMTP = localhost

;for wind32 only

sendmail_from= me@localhost.com

and change it accordingly to your SMTP server settings e.g

[mail function]

;for win32 only

SMTP = mail.yourisp.com

;for wind32 only

sendmail_from= you@somemailservice.com

If you are terribly confused with this SMTP thing then don’t worry, You are a NEWBIE ! so just forget about it and once we are handling Mail in PHP then you will understand the need and use of SMTP server etc

Preface:

I had received many requests from many newbies and my main website i.e http://www.fastcreators.com/ users to write some solid articles to help newbies to get  quick start with PHP. I have had written some articles on PHP on different websites but now I have decided to start a brand new series of PHP Tutorials by the name “Fast PHP Tutorial” in which I will start teaching PHP from scratch and will go to the extreme limit of PHP programming including its working with other tools like XML, cURL, AJAX, SOAP and WSDL etc.

Fast PHP Tutorial Series Articles:

I have created an especial category for Fast PHP Tutorial Articles here and you can follow all articles by that category. I will be posting all related articles under that category. A new article is supposed to be publish every 24 hours but please don’t get mad if I fail to write some any day as I remain very busy with my web projects and I am writing this series of PHP Articles volunteerly.

Request To Publishers:

The sole purpose of this PHP tutorial series is to teach new php developers the best techniques quickly and to help beginners get around with php coding. Illegal and unauthorized publishing of this Fast PHP Tutorial Series is prohabited. If you want to publish my tutorials on your website and or in printed form then please take written Permission from me.

Lets get started,

Birth Of PHP:

In 1995 Rasmus Lerdorf made a set of scripts based on PERL to access his resume and named it as PHP / FI stands for Personal Home Page / Forms Interpreter. In 1997 Rasmus released PHP / FI 2.0 with a large C-implementation and it received rapid fame due to its ease of use and C like syntax as it was easy for C programmers to adopt and its programming rules were compartively simple than C language. After some beta versions of PHP / FI 2.0 finally Alpha PHP 3.0 was released later.

In 1997 Andi Gutmans and Zeev Suraski worked together with Rasmus to completey rewrite the language and introduce a more powerful language known as PHP 3.0. Shortly after PHP 3.0 in 1998 PHP 4 came on the screen with improved performance for complex applications and in 2004 finally PHP 5.0 was released with a new object model and plenty of new features.

If you want to get more information on PHP history then please visit http://www.zend.com/zend/future.php 

PHP Certification:

Yes, like CCNA for CISCO, MCSE for Microsoft and RHCE for Redhat linux Zend (derived from Zeev and Andi names and the company that is responsible for PHP development) offers ZCE (Zend Certified Engineer) certification.  It is very easy to apply for and fairly affordable too.

You have to buy a Certification Voucher first that costs US$ 125 (at the time of writing this tuorial) then you can schedule your online exam in your nearest Authorized PHP Examination Centre and can conduct exam. Zend also provide a Examination Guide that increases your chances to pass the exam for US$ 32.99 and you can also get online Zend training for US$ 599.

To get full information on other ZCE please visit Zend Offiical Site http://www.zend.com/education/zend_php_certification

Now lets move further with our FAST PHP Tutorial and answer the most common questions that a new PHP user can ask.

What is PHP? 

PHP , now, stands for Hypertext Preprocessor and is a server-side scripting language. Please remember that there are two types of scripting languages on web ,

a) Client Side: the languages that helps you perform different tasks on the client side for example Javascript helps you to validate your forms and show message accordingly to your users without submitting page to your server on the client side. VB Script and Client Side XSLT are other examples.

b) Server Side Languages:

Server side langauges make your website dynamic and intellegent. You can take input from your users and can perform certain operations on the input to generate desired output. For example Online Shopping Stores, Online Examination Applications, Online Reservation Systems, Database driven websites are a few examples of the applications powered by Server Side Languages.

PHP is a server side language and it helps you to make your site intellegent  to provide dynamic features to your users. Other examples of server side languages are ASP, PERL, Cold Fusions and Server Side Java etc.

Why PHP?

If you are still confused that why you should use PHP then answer is very straight forward - if you want to make a web application that can take input from users and can process it to generate certain output then you will need PHP to work for you on server side and response to different events generated from client side accordingly. For example if you want to make an Online Shopping Store for your Video Games business where people can browse different categories of games and can shop of their choice and finally can pay you online in real time.

What do I need to make PHP based Applications?

PHP is a server side scripting language so your users don’t need any software to install however you should have PHP installed on your server where you are going to host your website. PHP support is mentioned as a shared-hosting feature on different web hosts and if you have a dedicated server then you may need to ask your server Administrator to setup PHP for you. Latest version of PHP is 5.2.0 that is released a few weeks ago from the time writing this tutorial.

Fast PHP Tutorial (Part 2):

Today we discussed the History, background and use of PHP and by now you should feel yourself friendly with PHP. In Fast PHP Tutorial Part 2 I will show you how to install PHP on Windows and Linux systems and how to setup your web server to execute your PHP code  on your PC. Also we will discuss some very useful technical terms that one must know as a PHP developer.

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I am going to give a guideline to the authors about including code blocks in their posts like code blocks of HTML.

If you want to fine-tune how treats your code, use the allow and lang attributes on the code tag to specify how Code Markup should handle it.

• <strong><code /></strong>or <strong><code /></strong>allows common HTML tags to be rendered, and displays everything else exactly as written.
  <li><code><strong><code /></strong>displays content exactly as written — no markup allowed.
  <li><code><strong><code /></strong>renders content as HTML — all markup is allowed.
  <li><code><strong><code /></strong>allows only <code /><em>, <code /><strong>and <code />tags to be rendered as HTML — everything else is displayed exactly as written. You can put whatever tags you like in the <code>allow attribute, separated by spaces. As a special case, you can include the comment tag — this means that HTML comments <!-- like this -->will be “rendered” as normal HTML comments (i.e. not displayed).

• <code lang="html" /><strong><em>or
</em></strong><code lang="xhtml" /><strong><em>displays content exactly as written, the same as </em></strong><code /><strong><em>.</em></strong><strong><em>The <code>allow attribute overrides the lang attribute.

   

  Examples

  Example: Test strings using aString < "foo".
  Display: Test strings using aString < "foo".

  Example:

  
  <pre><code lang="xhtml"><!-- paragraph -->     What's going on?  

  Display:

  <!-- paragraph -->     What's going on?  

  Example:

  
  <pre><code><!-- paragraph -->     What's going on?  

  Display:

  <!-- paragraph -->     What's going on?  

  Example:

  
  <pre><code> for (int i=0; i&lt;5; ++i) {    <span style="color: red">cout</span> < < "smap!" << endl; } 

  Display:

  for (int i=0; i&lt;5; ++i) {    <span style="color: red">cout</span> < < "smap!" << endl; }

  Example:

  
  <pre><code> <a href="http://fastcreators.com/article/<span%20style=">target-url">Link text
  <p />Display:
  <pre class="code"><code><a href="http://fastcreators.com/article/<span%20style=">target-url">Link text</a>

  I thank Bennet for providing this awesome plugin.

  Regards,

  Haroon (www.fastcreators.com)

Preface:

If you are a beginner in php and if you ever wanted to make a contact page that sends email to admin on submission then this post is for you.

This is a very simple Email Form in php that will help you to understand the process and would help you to make more complex forms.

Introduction:

There are two pages, Contact.html and SendMail.php,

Contact.html is a HTML form where the visitor will submit his name, email and message. and

SendMail.php will get the variables and would displatch email to admin containing all the information.

We will use PHP MAIL function for sending out email.

Following are the code for HTML Form called Contact.html

Contact.html
————

Quick Code

Following is the code for SendMail.php that will accept form variables and will send Email.

SendMail.php
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// define the email that you want to send the form 

$to = “admin@yoursite.com”; 

// Get form variables 

  $name = $_POST[uname]; 
   $email = $_POST[uemail]; 
  $msg = $_POST[message]; 

// make the body of email 

$mailbody = “Name: $name  Email: $email  Message: $msg”; 

// use mail function of php to send email 

 if (mail($to,“Contact Form Submitted from your site”,$mailbody,“\r\n From: $email”) ) { 
  
     echo “Email Sent successfully”; 
   } 
  else 
     echo “There was some problem in sending email please refer to manual”; 

?>

Important Note: This is a very basic Tutorial to make an Email Based Contact Form in PHP and it is no alternative to a professionally writtern and secure contact form. The sole purpose of this tutorial is to give PHP newbies a quick start so that they can improvise to make complex php email based contact forms. I have already been running a very famous Email Based Contact Form project that is very secure and professionally written with standard code, email validation, user-friendly dynamic messages, form validation, CAPTCHA, Remote Spam Attacks Proof and it is recommended to download that code and study it and also you can use it right a way in your website as it is very elegant too.

Download Email Based Contact Form For FREE

Haroon (www.fastcreators.com)

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Hi

I am glad to inform all authors that I have added a google adsense rotator to the blog and now you can mention your Google Adsense IDs in your user panel to earn from your articles. The rotator is working on 50/50 percentage currently.

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