Someone is really having it bad right now. Actually its not the PHP authors. Its the publishers of an online magazine called Hiveminds. But left to me I think these guys should be refered to as Caveminds and not Hiveminds. Because, I am certain that these guys does not conduct enough research before concluding their mind that PHP is not a right tool for you, but Ruby.

Hiveminds article on “PHP is Approaching the End of Its Life Cycle” promoted the advantages of Ruby more than PHP. The author also compared ASP and PHP. I honestly feel that the two programming languages are in a class of their own, as an author who moved from the ASP world to the lux of PHP.

I also want to appraise peoples comment to that article both on Hivemind and on Marco Tabini’s Weblog “Someone please throw Hiveminds a comma key“.

Giving a respect to PHP and Ruby, Zend Framework (&Co) and Rail, I think they belong to different worlds and should be left for programmers to decide their choice. Hivemind is biased and I think they need more than a comma key but a period.

Please check out the two articles and have a great feel.

If you have ever had issues getting your apache web server up and running on your windows machine, then this tutorial is meant for you. We’ll also go through writing your first PHP script and then migrate to retrieving information from MySQL database.

This tutorial assumes that your apache web server would be running locally. So references would be made to localhost as your web server.

Apache web server
Actually, the best web server you can find around is the Apache. It can be downloaded for free from the apache web site. I know the major challenge most newbies would be having is administering Apache. I must confess it not that easy, but its interesting, after all its your machine, take it and make it!

Installing Apache
Easiest thing in the world! Download the most recent stable version (currently Apache HTTP Server 2.2.3). Run the .msi file you downloaded and you would have successfully installed it. NB. Make sure no other web server is currenlty running on your system on port 80.

Open your browser and run http://localhost/ and see your test page. If you can see this, smile.

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Introduction
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In its simplest form an XML file is a text file containing data sent
from one computer system to another using a command standard
- a common language. You accomplish this by taking
your data, wrapping it in Extensible Markup Language (XML),
and sending it (via FTP or HTTP) to another company’s computer
system where they unwrap the data and process it.
Sounds pretty simple, doesn’t it?

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XML in SQL Server 2005
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Explaining XML in SQL2005 would take a week, and unfortunately
we do not have enough time to cover all the great features
introduced in the new version of SQL Server.
One of the most important new features is the xml data type.
It is now possible to add an xml column to your tables, in which
you store XML documents. These xml documents can be
indexed and queried using languages like XQuery. You will
need to take care.As discussed earlier, XML is a verbose language
and takes a lot of storage space and a lot of computing
power when manipulated. If you only need part of the
data in the XML document (for example, the value in one or
two elements), then extract the data stored in those elements
and save it in a more appropriate data type, like varchar and
int.
XML Schemas can be created in the database engine using
DDL and associated with xml data type columns and variables.
XSLT style sheets are also supported by
SQL2005.
Native Web Services support has been introduced
into SQL2005, as well as SQLXML, which
gives .NET developers access to all the XML
functionality in SQL2005.

Pls see the attached to read full pdf.

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