While many popular website applications (WordPress, Drupal, Joomla, etc.) are open source and therefore freely available, running these PHP-based apps on a Windows IIS web server requires a bit of ...

There are two places where I do software development for the Web. The first is “out there,” on the Web server for which I pay my monthly hosting fee. The second is “in here,” right on my own desktop, ...

To install the MySQL database, you must first download the community edition of MySQL 5.0 database for Windows. There are three versions: Windows Essentials (x86), Windows (x86) ZIP/Setup.EXE and ...

In the realm of web development, the LAMP stack stands as a time-tested, versatile foundation for building dynamic websites and applications. This stack, an acronym for Linux, Apache, MySQL, and PHP, ...