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Tips for using PHP
Some of the benefits of
using PHP in your website:
How many times have you sat down to
design a PHP/MySQL driven website and couldn't find a good
starting place? This tutorial is gauged toward the
beginning PHP user, and goes through absolutely everything
to start a cool PHP site. What you do after that is up to
you!
Learning the site's control panel is
perhaps the most important thing that you, as a site
administrator, can do. It is absolutely vital to be able
to have your settings the way that you need them to be,
plus be able to know where to go to find important
information. Here is some information on CPanel and
Fantastico
Cpanel is a comprehensive and
intuitive control panel for your website. It requires you
to login and administrate certain aspects such as email,
password protecting directories, MySQL databases, FTP
accounts, view web statistics and much more.
Core Features of Cpanel:
- - Simple Account Management
including FTP and Email
- - MySQL Management including phpMyAdmin and Built in
MySQL Management
- - Website Statistics such as
Analog, Urchin, Webalizer and more
- - Multiple Webmail clients such
as Horde, Squirellmail and NeoMail
- - Spam Assassin email spam
protection
- - Email Autoresponders, forwards
and mailing lists
- - Server control access such as
IP Denial, Blocking and control imiting features
- - Backup and Restore tools
- - Network Tool such as DNS
lookups, Traceroute, etc.
Fantastico Features:
Fantastico is a simple to use PHP Script installer. It
comes loaded with scripts that you can simply point, click
and install into your website. All of the hard work is
done for you! The databases are created, configuration
files are setup and you are ready to go!
Here are some of the scripts that Fantastico installs for
you, on your request:
Portals
PHP-Nuke
Post-Nuke
phpWebsite
Xoops
Blogs
b2
pMachine
Free
Live help
CS
Live Help
PHP
Support Tickets
Support
Services Manager
phpBB2
Invision Board
Starter Scripts
OS
Commerce
4images Gallery
PHPauction
PHProjekt
phpLinks
Moodle
Noahs Classifieds
PHPlist
WebCalendar
Setup Your Database And Mail Accounts
This is a fairly important part of your
site as well, if you're into that whole "using my
database" and "getting email" thing. I know
of some sites that, for some odd reason, refuse to use their
mail setups. Don't ask me why. Seems to me that if you
send mail to someone@thatdomain.com, it just looks better
than someone@aol.com or business_name@some_isp.com. Maybe
it's just me. Setting up your mail is fairly
straight-forward. You need to sign up an email for
yourself and your employees, plus passwords. Might want to
test it by sending an email to each account that is set
up, to be sure that you have them configured correctly. Be
sure to write the passwords down somewhere safe too, just
in case. Setting up your database can be a tricky
business, but it doesn't have to be. Really, you just need
to remember what your password is, and after that, you're
pretty much done. Add some tables, pull and push some data
Editing your index page
As probably all of us know, your index
page is the first page that people see when they visit
your site, for the most part. Your index page comes
with the information that it is a new site, and to check
back later...or something to that effect. You can put up a
generic design for the time being, or maybe an email
address to contact you, whatever you want. Remember, this
isn't what your site will end up looking like, it's only a
placeholder for the awesomeness that is to come.
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