Articles on increasing the functionality of your site with php Scripts, Script Installation, and Website Hosting

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• PHP vs CGI
  PHP seems very much in vogue now - with an increasingly greater number of web hosts providing support for it. For those who have only vaguely heard of it and are not too sure what it is, this article discusses PHP and informally compares it with writing CGI scripts in Perl.
  
  
• Understanding File Permissions
  What they are and understanding their values.
  
  
• Setting the File Permissions
  So, now that you have an understanding of how to decipher the numbers used for expressing file permissions...
  
  
• Working with PHPsuexec
  This article provides information about this mode and details the differences you may encounter between PHP running in CGI mode and PHP running as an Apache module. (777 permissions vs. 755)
  
  

• The .htaccess file
  What does it do? How do I use it?
  
  
• .htaccess CheatSheet
  From the "jackol's den "
  Caution: Don't mess with this until you read and understand the other pages or unless you know what you're doing! .htaccess, or Hypertext Access is simple, but powerful.
  
  

• FTP and .htaccess
  .htaccess maintenance and getting started.
  
  
• An Article About Hosting.
  I wrote this years ago and drug it out, I'll rewrite it someday.. Don't be too harsh!
  
  
• Overselling Hosting
  What is overselling? What should you know about it?
  
  
• PHP Scripts & Cron
  Lots of programmers like PHP for its ability to code and develop web applications fast. Code-debugging is a lot easier than with PERL or C. However, there is one thing a lot of developers are puzzled about, "How to run PHP Scripts with crontab?"
  
  
• Relative vs. Absolute URL
  To install a script properly, you must know the difference between a path and a url, an absolute path and a relative path. Wanna know more? (Good Article)
  
  

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