April 19th, 2009
The most recent version of this tutorial has been completely re-written at WebDev Codex.
Learn how to Install PHP 5.3,
To view the latest version, Goto Screencast #1 : Installing Apache 2.2, PHP 5.3, MySQL 5.1 & PHPMyAdmin 3.2 for Windows 7/Vista
If you want to see the screencast of this tutorial, then goto
Screencast #1 : Installing Apache 2.2, PHP 5.3, MySQL 5.1 & PHPMyAdmin 3.2 for Windows 7/Vista
Not everyone would spend money online to buy webspace just so that they can test out how their latest application works, Well… Welcome to Vision Master Designs Blog. This tutorial will teach you to set up a developer environment for PHP/MySQL in your computer in no time.
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September 17th, 2008
What is SVN ? Why is it required ? You might be wondering. While developing applications for the web or any other area, most of us would be trying and testing the code on our local machines, sometimes it happens, while in the flow of coding, we tend to do some drastic changes to the sourcecode (atleast I do) only to find out that the application is not executing anymore after that. It becomes difficult to backtrack and eventually, we end up wasting a lot of time and energy, this is where SVN comes to our rescue.
Definition according to Wikipedia :
Subversion (SVN) is a version control system initiated in 2000 by CollabNet Inc. It is used to maintain current and historical versions of files such as source code, web pages, and documentation. Its goal is to be a mostly-compatible successor to the widely used Concurrent Versions System (CVS).
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August 7th, 2008
Imagine this, You have a dynamic site powered by PHP/MySQL, its doing ok, you have submitted your website URL to all the known search engines, but still your site doesn’t seem to get much traffic from the search engines…ever wondered why ?
Well firstly, search engines have billions of pages to search. Imagine your link to be something like www.yourdomain.com/index.php?page=aboutme, its tough for any search engine to comprehend any keywords from the link.
But how about www.yourdomain.com/page/about-me.html ? These links are static Links, SEO Friendly Links, “Pretty Links”.
So today we are going to learn how to convert your ugly links into pretty links.
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- Step 1 : Enable mod_rewrite in httpd.conf
- Step 2 : Create A Simple PHP file
- Step 3 : .htaccess file
Method 1 – For only a single Variable
Method 2 – For 1 and more than 1 Variable(s)
- Conclusion
Ugly URLs
http://www.visionmasterdesigns.com/demo/seo/test.php?page=page1
http://www.visionmasterdesigns.com/demo/seo/test.php?page=page1&var=foo
Pretty URLs
http://www.visionmasterdesigns.com/demo/seo/page1.html
http://www.visionmasterdesigns.com/demo/seo/page1/foo.html
Click Here to download the script files.
July 9th, 2008
Greetings,
Most of you must have heard of “Ruby on Rails (RoR)”. It being touted as the next best thing (apart from php 
). Well lemme give you a lowdown of what Ruby on Rails is…
I`ll try to explain the power of RoR in the simplest of words,
If PHP can do something after typing 75 lines of code, RoR can do the same thing in typing mearly 3 lines of code !!!!
Thats as simple is it gets ! But then again, there is a catch to it, RoR is equally complex. So Today, I`ll just give you the basic idea of what Ruby on Rails is, and how to set up a developer environment for RoR, So next time we can directly start creating applications. woohoo !
